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, 17 Balmoral Terrace, Dillon’s Cross, Cork.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

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.