County: Meath Site name: HOLLYMOUNT AND HILLTOWN GREAT
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1044
Author: David J. O’Connor, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Structure
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 708634m, N 768075m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.651156, -6.356714
Testing of the proposed development of an eighteen-hole golf-course, including driving range, temporary clubhouse, and associated roadways and services, 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. The site is in the townlands of Hollymount and Hilltown Great and is c. 1km east of Bellewstown village. It lies on mixed agricultural land, on the northern slope of Bellewstown Hill.
Five trenches were excavated around feature F4 (identified in the initial assessment). Evidence of archaeological activity, uncovered in Trench 4, consisted of two possible substantial post-holes and an area of burnt clay.
Unit 4, Dundrum Business Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14
