County: Westmeath Site name: DUNEGIN AND TULLYBANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1215
Author: Elizabeth Connolly, for Archaeological Services Unit Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 615390m, N 740940m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.418359, -7.768473
Monitoring of topsoil removal from a glacial ridge, for a proposed quarry extension, took place over five days in August 2002. Excavation revealed natural stratigraphy. Topsoil was fairly compact, mid-brown, silty clay with a moderate amount of small stones. Below this, sterile gravel was found on the ridge and sterile orange subsoil on the lower-lying ground at the south of the site. There were also some patches of soft white marl on the lower-lying ground. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered.
Oranmore, Co. Galway
