2002:1481 - KILMESSAN, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: KILMESSAN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: Unlicensed

Author: Donald Murphy, ACS Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 689425m, N 758266m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.566667, -6.650000

Monitoring of the construction of a dwelling-house in the village of Kilmessan, Co. Meath, was carried out. Monitoring of the excavation of foundation trenches for the building revealed that the area had been substantially disturbed by the construction of a factory about 40 years ago. No features of archaeological significance were exposed, and no finds were recovered.

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