2005:1525 - CASTLEPOLLARD, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath

Site name: CASTLEPOLLARD

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 05E0148

Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology

Author/Organisation Address: Threecastles, Kilkenny

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 647077m, N 769532m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.673407, -7.287514

Westmeath County Council requested an impact assessment of a proposed housing development. The site lay adjacent to Castlepollard, a late 17th-/early 18th-century town. Four test-trenches were excavated across the proposed development area. Nothing of archaeological interest was noted.