County: Meath Site name: BELLEWSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: Unlicensed monitoring
Author: Breand‡n î R’ord‡in, Burgage More, Blessington, Co. Wicklow, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Souterrain
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 709177m, N 767276m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.643867, -6.348786
Monitoring of soil-stripping on the route of the proposed realignment of the existing R150, east of Duleek, was carried out intermittently between 28 June and 2 September 2004 in an area of pasture and cultivated land. A souterrain had been discovered in cultivated land in the townland of Bellewstown in 1964; the structural remains had been back-filled almost immediately and no record of its form or content had been made. In the course of soil-stripping in a cultivated field in this townland, the site of a souterrain was located, as evidenced by the presence of darkened soil combined with superimposed structural stones and bone fragments. Excavation was recommended (04E1089, David McCullough - report not received).
