County: Westmeath Site name: FARTHINGSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A001/006
Author: John Tierney, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork.
Site type: Possible hearth
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 646447m, N 739110m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.400097, -7.301561
Excavations were undertaken in advance of realignment of the N6, between Kinnegad and Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath, in 2004 (Excavations 2004, No. 1748, 04E0908). Farthingstown 7 was one of six areas of archaeological potential uncovered in Farthingstown townland, near the western end of the scheme.
A possible hearth was identified during testing c. 9m north of the centre-line trench in Test-Trench 5. This possible hearth measured 0.75m east–west by 0.5m and comprised a mixture of burnt, blackened soil and burnt reddish clay. The trench was reopened in 2005 but no further archaeological remains were found.
