County: Meath Site name: St Andrew’s National School, Crickstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0335
Author: Antoine Giacometti, Arch-Tech Ltd, 32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 703242m, N 755328m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.537745, -6.442460
Monitoring in proximity to a holy font (ME039–005) took place in summer 2010. This involved excavations under the playing pitch to the rear of St Andrew’s National School, Crickstown, Curragha, Co. Meath, for the installation of a sewer system upgrade.
The monitoring programme identified no archaeological deposits within the area of the sewerage works upgrade, and concluded that these works have had no archaeological impact. Research on the font monument suggested it had originated from an older church site 600m to the south-west, and had only been at its present location since very recent times.
