County: Westmeath Site name: KILLAVALLY 5
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A001/059
Author: Eoghan Moore, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.
Site type: Modern
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 638488m, N 736201m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.374599, -7.421597
The excavation of the remains of thirteen archaeological sites that had been previously identified during centre-line testing along the proposed route of the N6 Kinnegad–Kilbeggan motorway in the townland of Killavalley, Co. Westmeath (Excavations 2004, No. 1787, 04E0879), took place during the period 12 January to 18 February 2005. Only five of the sites identified produced any diagnostic features that could be interpreted as archaeological evidence. At the site of Killavally 5 the remains of a modern field ditch/drain – which had been cut by the later intrusion of four burnt spreads (these burnt spreads have been interpreted as deposits associated with modern agricultural activity) – were excavated.
