2007:1383 - Raynestown, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: Raynestown

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A043/004; E3596

Author: Stuart Rathbone, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 698714m, N 748399m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.476363, -6.512926

Test-trenching was undertaken in the area of a proposed borrow pit in the townland of Raynestown, Co. Meath, adjacent to the M3 Clonee to North of Kells motorway scheme. Six trenches were excavated at 20m intervals with a combined length of 1694m. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered.