2007:1386 - SEVITSLAND, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: SEVITSLAND
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 07E0029
Author: Dominic Delany, Dominic Delany & Associates
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 714357m, N 772908m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.693356, -6.268409
Pre-development testing was carried out on the site of a proposed housing development at Sevitsland, Bettystown, Co. Meath, on 31 January 2007. There are no known monuments in the vicinity of the proposed development site, the nearest being a holy well located over 150m to the south-east. Eleven trenches were opened on the development footprint. The topsoil varied from 0.2m to 0.35m in thickness and overlay light to mid-brown silty clay subsoil. No archaeological material was uncovered.