County: Meath Site name: Cruicerath/Donore/Platin/Stalleen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E1028
Author: Aaron Johnston, for Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd, Unit 4A, Dundrum Business Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14.
Site type: Possible prehistoric landscape
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 704578m, N 772537m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.692064, -6.416541
The bundled wastewater collection system is a development by Meath County Council to upgrade the sewerage network in Donore and seven other towns and villages in County Meath. Donore will have 3320 linear metres of network pipe trench excavated through four townlands over approximately seven months. A total of c. 3185m of trench will be excavated along existing roads, with the remaining 135m running along a gravel road. The wastewater treatment plant in Stalleen will also be extended and an outflow pipe will be constructed to the Boyne River. The development area is considered archaeologically significant because it is located within the Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne UNESCO World Heritage Site (UNESCO WHC No. 659).
Monitoring in 2007 consisted of a single engineer’s test-pit; nothing of archaeological significance was observed. Works will continue in 2008.
