County: Cavan Site name: MUNNILLY, COOTEHILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0122
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 659641m, N 814669m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.077683, -7.088622
A ‘request for further information’ for the construction of a 91-unit residential development at Munnilly, Cootehill, required that the site be subject to an impact assessment to include testing. The site is located on the north-eastern extent of Cootehill and is presently under pasture. There are no previously identified archaeological monuments located within, or in the general environs of, the site. Testing undertaken of lands to the immediate east did not uncover anything of interest or potential (Excavations 2006, No. 231).
Fifteen trenches were excavated by machine fitted with a toothless ditching/grading bucket, following which the sides and bases were cleaned by hand. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered during the course of testing. There is a possibility that a bypass road may be routed through the site and, consequently, development proposals have been postponed.
