County: Meath Site name: DERROCKSTOWN (Testing Area 13)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0474
Author: Eamonn Cotter, for Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 697567m, N 749387m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.485451, -6.529888
An assessment was carried out in advance of the planned M3 Clonee–North of Kells PPP scheme, Co. Meath, on the Clonee–Dunshaughlin section (Contract 1) between February and June 2004. This section of the scheme consists of c. 14.2km of motorway and a further c. 14km of link roads and additional side roads. 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 26 testing areas. The assessment methodology generally consisted ofmechanically excavating a 2m-wide test-trench along the centre-line with perpendicular trenches extending to the edge of the land-take every 20m. The work was carried out on behalf of Meath County Council, the National Roads Design Office and the National Roads Authority.
Seventy-one test-trenches were excavated in Testing Area 13. The assessment was carried out on 16–27 April 2004. Nothing of archaeological significance was identified.
Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth
