County: Meath Site name: TRIM: Emmet Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 36:48 Licence number: 01E0615
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 679956m, N 756712m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.554236, -6.793316
The site extends from Emmet Street on the east to the line of the town wall on the west. Standing buildings occupied the street-front end of the site. Two test-trenches were mechanically excavated on the site on 7 July 2001.
No remains of the original town wall survived on its line at the west side of the site. A drystone wall constructed from stones from the original wall defined this end of the site. Subsoil varied from 0.5m below modern ground level on the north side of the site to 1.3m below modern ground level on the south side. The site was overlain by a thick homogeneous layer of modern cultivated soil. The different depths of cultivated soil across the site are the result of the terracing of the slope to provide level plots for cultivation.
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