2007:1921 - Blackhall Street, Mullingar, Westmeath

The owner of the site received planning permission to demolish existing sheds and to construct a retail unit (with basement) and a duplex apartment at a property fronting on to the east end of Blackhall Street, Mullingar. He was required to carry out an archaeological assessment of the site beforehand.
As the development site was very narrow, only one trench was excavated down the middle. Brown garden soil containing animal bone and 19th-century ceramics was exposed to a depth of 1.1m. A gully c. 0.6m wide was exposed running at a diagonal angle across the trench from north-east to south-west. It was cut into natural subsoil to a maximum depth of c. 0.4m. Animal bone was present in the fill but there were no other finds to indicate a date. It did not observe the alignment of the property boundary and was interpreted as a drainage gully.