County: Meath Site name: Blackfriary (2nd Division)/Peterstown/Newtown/Lackanash
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME036–054 (adjacent to) Licence number: 10E0441
Author: Aidan O’Connell, Archer Heritage Planning, 8 BEaT Centre, Stephenstown, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 680774m, N 757204m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.558531, -6.780838
Monitoring of road-upgrading works was undertaken along an 800m-stretch of the R161 Trim–Navan road in November 2010. Previous investigations carried out during an earlier phase of road works by Deirdre Murphy revealed the presence of burials dating to the 5th–6th centuries ad (Excavations 1997, No. 431, and Excavations 1998, No. 531, 97E0389). No archaeological finds or features were recorded in the current phase of work.
