County: Meath Site name: TRIM: High Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 36:48 Licence number: 01E1146
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Building
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 679733m, N 756821m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.555250, -6.796641
The site lies on the south side of High Street, Townparks South; its southern side abuts the boundary around the medieval St Mary’s Priory.
Five trenches were mechanically excavated on the site on 6 December 2001.
A layer of disturbed medieval cultivation soil was revealed at the rear of the site, lying 0.5–0.9m below modern ground level. It lay directly on subsoil and under topsoil.
The remains of a stone-walled and clay-floored building, demolished in the 18th century, were revealed at the street-front end of the site at a depth of 0.2–0.7m below modern ground level. These structures will have to be excavated in 2002 to allow development to proceed.
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