2008:087 - Dreenan, Cavan

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cavan Site name: Dreenan

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0790

Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc Na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 640820m, N 800905m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.955843, -7.378049

Testing was undertaken at the site of a proposed agricultural-related development in September 2008. There is a ringfort (CA025–036) located a minimum of 70m to the south-east of the site. A total of fifteen trenches of varying length and orientation were excavated within the boundaries of the site and nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered.