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 690941m, N 761007m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.591039, -6.626317
Pre-development testing 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.
Test excavation consisted of the excavation by a mechanical digger fitted with a 2m-wide toothless ditching bucket of 54 trenches. Excavation was undertaken to the depth of natural undisturbed subsoil. Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed in the trenches. No finds were recovered during testing.
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