County: Meath Site name: TESTING AREA 6, BALLYBEG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0921
Author: Jo Ronayne, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 8 Dungar Terrace, Dœn Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 677671m, N 772090m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.692743, -6.823953
An assessment was carried out in advance of the planned M3 Clonee-North of Kells PPP scheme, Co. Meath, on the Navan-Kells and N52 Kells bypass (Contract 4) between July and October 2004. This section of the scheme is c. 11km long from the townland of Ardbraccan, north of Navan, to the townland of Cakestown Glebe, north of Kells. The EIS recommended testing any known or possible sites identified and Meath County Council further proposed to test the whole of the remainder of the route. For the purposes of testing, this section was divided into fourteen testing areas. The assessment methodology generally consisted of mechanically excavating 2mwide test-trenches along the centre-line and perpendicular to the centre-line to the edge of theland-take every 20m. The work was carried out on behalf of Meath County Council, the National Roads Design Office and the National Roads Authority.
Testing Area 6 is located in the townland of Ballybeg, between Chainage 65600 to 66000; 2406m2 of the total 21541.56m2 within this area was test-trenched, providing a testing coverage of 11.17%.
Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered in Test Area 6.
