County: Meath Site name: HOLLYMOUNT AND HILLTOWN GREAT
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1019
Author: David J. O’Connor, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 708634m, N 768075m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.651156, -6.356714
Monitoring of the proposed development of an eighteen-hole golf-course, including driving range, temporary clubhouse and associated roadways and services, at Hollymount and Hilltown Great, Bellewstown, was required. The development will involve substantial ground disturbance, in particular in the excavation of green areas, the emplacement of roadways and services, and landscaping works for the laying out of the course.
Groundworks involved the removal of deposits to the depth of subsoil to prepare areas for the construction of greens, bunkers and lakes. Monitoring took place between 17 July and 20 August 2002. All of the areas were first rotavated to a depth of 0.1m, to break up the sod, and then field-walked. The areas were then stripped of topsoil using a mechanical digger fitted with a 2m-wide toothless ditching bucket. Subsoil varied from 0.1m to 0.35m deep below the surface. No archaeological features were discovered in any of the areas. A number of finds were recovered, including pottery, both medieval and post-medieval, flint, clay-pipe fragments and glass.
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