2004:1734 - FORE, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath Site name: FORE

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 8:6 Licence number: 04E1434

Author: Brian Halpin, National Archaeological Services, Ard Solas, Lacken, Co. Wicklow.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 651073m, N 770360m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.680479, -7.226920

Monitoring was carried out at St Feichin's National School, Fore, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, on 28 and 29 November 2004. The site of the development is situated within the zone of archaeological potential of the historic village of Fore, SMR 8:97, and within the immediate vicinity of a wayside cross located in the boundary wall of the school. Nothing of an archaeological nature was uncovered.