County: Meath Site name: Chapelbride 5
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A030/006; E3168
Author: Derek Gallagher, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Burnt-mound activity
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 670882m, N 774676m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.716947, -6.926128
This site was located within Contract 5 (Kells–North of Kells) of the proposed M3 Clonee to North of Kells motorway, was identified during testing by David Bayley of IAC in 2004 (Excavations 2004, No. 1205, 04E1054) and was excavated from December 2006 to January 2007. The site was situated at the base of a hill just beside a small pond. A burnt-stone deposit (22m by 10m by 0.25m) overlay a subrectangular trough and five pits of various sizes. To the north of this deposit was a cluster of three pits, three spreads and one stake-hole and to the east were five irregular/sub-oval pits.
