County: Meath Site name: Athboy town/Bunboggan/Castletown/Eightyeight Acres/Fosterfields/ Mullaghstones/Townparks
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME029–023, 029–024, 030–001 Licence number: 07E0919
Author: Richard Clutterbuck, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd, Unit 4, Dundrum Business Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 671365m, N 764025m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.621177, -6.921262
The bundled wastewater collection system for County Meath, being undertaken by Meath County Council, is to be carried out in eight towns: Athboy, Donore, Duleek, Kilmainham Wood, Moynalty, Rathcairn, Rathmoylan, and Summerhill. This project is expected to continue until 2009. Monitoring of groundworks is taking place in Athboy, but outside the town’s zone of archaeological potential; these works will consist of 4684 linear metres of network pipe trench, a wastewater treatment plant and pump station. All other works inside and immediately adjacent to Athboy’s zone of archaeological potential, a national monument, will be carried out under ministerial consent (C254; E3687). An assessment of the development’s impacts on the Athboy River was carried out by Aisling Collins under a separate licence (07D51; 07R197). The network pipe route also follows the road past the Hill of Ward (ME030–001), a national monument, towards Rathcairn.
To date, nothing of archaeological significance has been discovered. Monitoring will continue into 2008.
