2002:0687 - SWORDS: Seatown Villas, off North Street, Dublin

Planning permission was granted to construct a two-storey commercial office building on this site. An assessment was required as the development is within the northern limit of the zone of archaeological potential of Swords. Two trenches tested the footprint of the development. A concrete-lined ash-pit was exposed 3m south of the northern boundary wall. Garden soil was up to 0.85m deep, yielding 19th- and 20th-century pottery. The underlying natural comprised gritty gravel over most of the site; a fine, light brown/orange clay was exposed at the northernmost end of Trench 1. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed in the two trenches, and no finds were recovered.

Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath