2002:1920 - NEW ROSS: Cross Street, Westmeath

Testing as part of an assessment took place at Cross Street on 19 March 2002. Four trenches were excavated. Before the assessment, monitoring of foundation excavation at the eastern boundary of the site was undertaken on 7 March 2002. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered during the monitoring or in three of the four test-trenches. In one trench, excavated along the street frontage at the northern boundary of the site, a pair of small barrel-vaulted cellars was uncovered beneath a layer of modern rubble. The cellars, which cut through the natural shales uncovered throughout the rest of the site, were constructed of a mixture of local stone and recycled red brick. No internal investigation of the cellars, which appeared to be of 18th- or early 19th-century date, was undertaken because of their structural instability.

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