2003:1478 - TRIM: Watergate Bridge, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: TRIM: Watergate Bridge
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 03E0318
Author: Graham Hull, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 679934m, N 756834m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.555336, -6.793605
Monitoring took place in the core of the historic town. An early 20th-century bridge was demolished, a water main was laid in the bed of the River Boyne and a new bridge was built. Modern dredging had seemingly destroyed any material of archaeological potential and, despite the use of a metal detector, no artefacts were identified.