County: Meath Site name: BETAGHSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1709
Author: Eoghan Kieran, c/o Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Various
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 686647m, N 742427m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.424830, -6.696300
A series of 25 test-trenches were excavated by mechanical digger fitted with a toothless bucket. Nineteen trenches contained features which appeared to be archaeological. The most definitive features were a partially exposed arc of a 0.8-0.9mwide circular ring-ditch, a disarticulated human burial, an area of burning and an additional area of burning. These features were uncovered on the gentle sloping north-south-running ridge which dominates the terrain in this area. These features are indicative of the area having been subject to intensive archaeological activity.
Editor's note: Though carried out in 2002, this summary was received too late for inclusion in the bulletin of that year.
