County: Meath Site name: ATHLUMNEY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0353
Author: Richard Clutterbuck, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 688485m, N 765712m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.633727, -6.662083
An assessment and test excavation was carried out at site of the proposed ‘Pump Station (PS) 8’ on the proposed Kilcarn to Johnstown sewerage scheme development, Navan, Co. Meath. The development will consist of new sewer pipes running on roads and through greenfield beside the River Boyne, as well as three new pump stations (PS 8, 9 and 10). PS 8 will consist of a building measuring 13.5m by 21.98m and a 50m-long gravity main to the Boyne River. The site of the pump station is immediately east of the River Boyne in a low-lying wet and boggy field within the river’s flood-plain.
Three test-trenches were excavated on 20 April 2005 to assess the archaeological impact of the pump station. The subsoil consists of river-deposited silts and sands; the overlying soil consists primarily of peaty soils covered by a grass sod. Nothing of archaeological significance was found. Trenching revealed features associated with modern land drainage, land improvement and modern dumped deposits likely to be associated with dredging in the River Boyne; all the features appear to be modern.
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