2006:2057 - Monsette, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath Site name: Monsette

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0161

Author: John Purcell, 17 Balmoral Terrace, Dillon’s Cross, Cork.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 641032m, N 732597m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.342012, -7.383840

Test-trenching was carried out as part of the planning schedule for a single house adjacent to a ringfort at Monsette, Rahugh. 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.