County: Westmeath Site name: CORRELLSTOWN (Site 92)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0106
Author: Eoin Corcoran, ACS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 655369m, N 747808m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.477397, -7.165899
The site was tested on behalf of Westmeath County Council before the construction of the M4 Kinnegad–Enfield–Kilcock Motorway Scheme, Contract 1, on foot of the recommendations of the archaeological section of the environmental impact assessment. The site consisted of a roughly circular earthen mound on a prominent flat area in a sloping field. The top of the mound was irregular and in some places had a lip of material surrounding it. Surrounding the mound were several loose stones, and tyre tracks were evident on the field surface. To the south-east of the site was a recent mound of building rubble with a broken-down mechanical digger beside it.
A machine with a grading bucket excavated one test-trench across the length of the mound. It was found to be entirely composed of a mixture of topsoil and natural boulder clay containing rope and other modern material and resting on the compressed turf-line of the original ground surface. Below the original ground surface was boulder clay, and no archaeological features or deposits were exposed.
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