2003:1371 - CASTLETOWNTARA AND DOWDSTOWN, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: CASTLETOWNTARA AND DOWDSTOWN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 50:7 Licence number: 03E0661

Author: David J. O'Connor, CRDS Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 694152m, N 773002m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.590311, -6.618921

Pre-development monitoring was undertaken at the site of the proposed waste treatment plant and outfall pipe at Castletowntara, Tara, Co. Meath, in May 2003. The development will involve substantial ground disturbance, in particular in the excavation of large underground tanks, as well as service roads and an outfall pipe to the River Skane.

Numerous field drains were exposed during the course of monitoring but all are modern. Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed during monitoring.

Unit 4, Dundrum Business Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14.