2007:1873 - Railway Field, Athlone, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath Site name: Railway Field, Athlone

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0123

Author: Stuart D. Elder, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.

Site type: Urban

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 604227m, N 741774m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.426060, -7.936400

The new town centre development in Athlone requires the installation of a new link road through CIE lands immediately to the south of Athlone railway station, between the Crescent Junction and the Coosan Point Junction through the Railway Field, and expansion of the existing roundabouts.
Numerous delays have meant that, two years on, the project has still not advanced to testing stage. Monitoring of test-pits was undertaken by Tara O’Neill in 2005, and no further work was carried out until 2007. At this time only a small area was topsoil-stripped to provide for a contractor’s compound. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.