2007:1382 - RATOATH, Meath

This site was tested in advance of a planning application to construct two blocks of apartments on the north side of the River Broadmeadow, just south of the Moatlands housing estate.

When excavation commenced it became clear that a huge quantity of building rubble had been dumped on the site creating a very steep slope, up to 5m deep. The rubble derived from the Moatlands development, built in the mid-1990s. It was not possible to bottom the five test-trenches. No mitigatory measures were suggested as it was likely that the apartments were to be built on raft foundations and that the original ground level would remain disturbed.