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2004:1726 - CORBETSTOWN, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath

Site name: CORBETSTOWN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: WM020-049

Licence number: 04E1480

Author: Brian Halpin, National Archaeological Services

Author/Organisation Address: Ard Solas, Lacken, Co. Wicklow

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 657640m, N 755222m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.543767, -7.130321

Testing was carried out on 2 November 2004 for the construction of two dwelling houses, septic tanks and percolation areas located on a greenfield site at Corbetstown, Killucan. The development is near a church, which is located 150m to the north-east. Four trenches were opened using a track machine with a 1m flat toothless bucket. Nothing of an archaeological nature was encountered.


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