2003:2002 - Rathcolman, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath Site name: Rathcolman

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 19:7 Licence number: 03E1679

Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd, 27 Coulson Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin 6.

Site type: Ringfort

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 640862m, N 751882m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.515333, -7.383889

The site included a recently demolished ringfort. A large number of trenches were mechanically excavated on the site. Apart from the very truncated and incomplete base of the ringfort ditch, nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.