County: Meath Site name: MORNINGTON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0209
Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 714426m, N 776517m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.725751, -6.266033
Monitoring was undertaken at a site in Mornington, close to Mornington village, south of the River Boyne, Co. Meath. The site comprised a number of fields and largely consisted of made-up ground which was reclaimed, by the River Boyne. It is proposed to construct a golf driving range, including a carpark and access road on the site.
Topsoil was removed by an excavator equipped with a grading bucket. The sod and topsoil measured an average depth of 0.3m and lay directly above the subsoil, which consisted of a mid-brown sandy clay. No archaeological features were exposed and a number of 19th–20th-century pottery sherds were recovered from the sod and topsoil.
Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth
