2002:1431 - BLACKHALL BIG, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: BLACKHALL BIG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 50:7
Licence number: 02E1388
Author: David J. O’Connor, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 4, Dundrum Business Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 695652m, N 744609m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.442877, -6.560195
Testing took place on 9 October 2002 before an application for the construction of an agricultural building at Blackhall Big, Dunboyne, Co. Meath. The site is near the remains of SMR 50:8, a trivallate ringfort, and within a field system. Testing consisted of the excavation of two trenches by a mechanical digger fitted with a 1m toothless ditching bucket. Excavation was undertaken to the depth of natural, undisturbed subsoil. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered.