2007:117 - 31 CHURCH STREET, CAVAN, Cavan

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cavan Site name: 31 CHURCH STREET, CAVAN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E1014 ext.

Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.

Site type: Urban

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 642011m, N 805058m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.993067, -7.359338

Planning permission for construction of an extension to the rear of 31 Church Street, Cavan, required an impact assessment to include testing. The site lies within the urban zone of archaeological potential established for Cavan and there are no previously recorded sites or features of archaeological interest within the immediate environs of the site.
Three trenches were excavated by machine fitted with a toothless ditching/grading bucket, following which the sides and bases were cleaned by hand. In addition, the spoil was raked through in order to determine the artefact-bearing potential of the topsoil. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered during the course of testing.