County: Westmeath Site name: Kiltotan and Collinstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0867
Author: Goorik Dehaene, Coolroe, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow, for The Archaeology Company Ltd.
Site type: Hearth
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 644441m, N 738950m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.398832, -7.331754
Quarrying works are planned for this site which comprises two arable fields totalling 16.9ha. Testing took place in September 2007 of geophysical anomalies identified by Earthsound Ltd. Eleven trenches were excavated, totalling 456m. A hearth was identified in the west of the site. This was a rectangular feature with charred fills. A relict field boundary, illustrated on the first-edition 6-inch OS map but not visible on the surface, was identified.
