County: Meath Site name: NEWTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1330 ext.
Author: Cara Murray, Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (IAWU), for Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 708995m, N 747223m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.463774, -6.358527
This excavation was undertaken as part of the archaeological mitigation in advance of the N2 Finglas–Ashbourne road scheme (Appendix II). Pre-development testing was carried out under this licence by David Bonner in 2003. This identified a number of possible archaeological features, Site 10 (previously designated Testing Area 10), within the main route of the development. The licence was transferred to Cara Murray and these deposits were examined in early March 2004.
This section of the development is located west of the existing N2. Examination of these possible features determined that they were not archaeologically significant but that they were agricultural and geological in origin, consisting of tree boles and field drains.
Unit 8, Ashcourt, Ashbourne Industrial Estate, Ashbourne, Co. Meath
