2004:1712 - ARCADIA, Athlone, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath Site name: ARCADIA, Athlone

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1527

Author: Emer Dennehy, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 604223m, N 742441m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.432058, -7.936441

Monitoring of ground disturbance activities in Athlone townland was requested. There are no known archaeological sites recorded from the development land or its immediate environs and it is outside the zone of archaeological potential for the medieval town of Athlone. Monitoring identified that portions of the site had previously been disturbed by gravel extraction. The remainder of the site, which was low-lying and heavily waterlogged, had stratigraphy composed of 0.2m of peaty topsoil overlying a leached white clay subsoil. No features or stratigraphy of an archaeological nature were identified.

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