2005:1305 - TOBER, Offaly

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Offaly Site name: TOBER

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1151

Author: Eoin Sullivan, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 621850m, N 736914m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.381949, -7.671579

Pre-development test-trenching was carried out at the site of the proposed Moyally O2 telecommunications tower, site compound and associated access road. The site is located to the south-east of Moate village. An enclosure (SMR 1:5) is located c. 100m to the east of the proposed development.

The site was assessed on the basis of four mechanically excavated test-trenches, on 7 October 2005. No soils or features of archaeological significance were encountered during the excavation.

27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2