County: Meath Site name: KELLS: TownParks, Moynalty Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 16:12, 16:16, 17:1, 17:44 Licence number: 02E1000
Author: John O’Connor, on behalf of ADS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 674251m, N 775829m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.726835, -6.874833
Monitoring of topsoil removal was carried out at a greenfield site at Townparks, Moynalty Road, Kells, Co. Meath, from 1 to 12 July 2002. Topsoil was stripped using a machine fitted with a toothless grading bucket. No traces of archaeological features or artefacts were found, but a series of post-medieval furrows (associated with ridge-and-furrow cultivation) and French drains were uncovered. These features possibly related to activity associated with the 19th-century poorhouse/workhouse situated in the vicinity of this site.
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