County: Meath Site name: Castlekeeran
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A043/005; E3593
Author: Stuart Rathbone, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 668026m, N 777382m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.741635, -6.968799
Test-trenching was undertaken in the area of a proposed borrow pit in the townland of Castlekeeran, Co. Meath, adjacent to the M3 Clonee to North of Kells motorway scheme. There is a local tradition of a souterrain in the vicinity of the borrow pit. Eleven trenches were excavated at 20m intervals on the east side of the field and 8–10m on the west side of the field in the area of the suspected souterrain, with a combined length of 1.204km. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered.
