County: Westmeath Site name: McNeads Bridge to Kinnegad
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1469
Author: Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology Ltd, 16 Avondale Court, Corbally, Limerick.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 659440m, N 745567m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.456810, -7.104996
The trenches for this phase of testing along the proposed route of the N4 road improvement were laid out along the centre-line of the road-take, with offset trenches extending to the edge of the road-take. Apart from two pairs of fulachta fiadh, subsequently excavated by Avril Hayes (Newdown townland, Mullingar, No. 2000 below, 03E1666, and Heathstown townland, Mullingar, No. 1973 above, 03E1694), nothing else of archaeological significance was detected. Numerous agricultural features were noted, including relict field boundaries, cultivation furrows and land drains, as well as naturally occurring geological features.
