County: Westmeath Site name: CASTLEPOLLARD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0148
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology, Threecastles, Kilkenny.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
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.