County: Meath Site name: ATHBOY: Bridge Street Lower
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME029-023 Licence number: 05E0567
Author: Carmel Duffy
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 671735m, N 761420m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.623673, -6.915497
Test-trenching was carried out in July 2005 on six adjacent sites, before a planning application. Twelve test-trenches were opened. A number of anomalies were found. All of these except one proved to be early modern or later. In Trench 3, Feature 2 may have been archaeological. It was a curvilinear area of burning, 0.8m across and 0.1–0.12m deep. The fill was dark-brown silty clay, with an orange and red heat-discoloured lens along its edges. It contained occasional mortar inclusions, charcoal and two sherds of medieval pottery. The dark material ran out of the northern edge of the trench, where it measured 0.25m by 0.04m.
Umberstown Great, Summerhill, Co. Meath
