2005:1566 - KILLEEN, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath Site name: KILLEEN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0900

Author: John Purcell

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 631903m, N 745127m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.455246, -7.519653

Test-trenching was carried out as part of the planning schedule for a single-house development adjacent to a ringfort and souterrain at Killeen, Adamstown. A series of trenches were excavated by mechanical digger at the house site, entrance and percolation area. No features or finds of archaeological significance were revealed.

17 Balmoral Terrace, Dillon’s Cross, Cork