2005:1209 - RIVER NANNY, Laytown, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: RIVER NANNY, Laytown

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05D100, 05R100

Author: Rex Bangerter, The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 671086m, N 816058m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.677504, -6.242385

Archaeological assessment took place of a 40m stretch of the River Nanny prior to the construction of a new pedestrian footbridge. The structure is to be placed c. 20m downstream from the existing Dublin–Belfast railway bridge. Systematic visual inspection and magnetometer survey was undertaken along a 70m stretch of the river. No archaeologically significant material was encountered within the survey area.

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