County: Cavan Site name: CORPORATION LANDS, BELTURBET
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CV015-069 Licence number: 11E0402
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 637612m, N 816017m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.091871, -7.425061
Pre-construction testing was undertaken, as part of granted planning permission, of the renovation of a nursing home and associated site works, including car parking. A ringfort and hut site (CV015-069) are located to the south-west of the site.
Six test trenches were opened, two on the eastern side of the site and the remaining four in the western section. A relatively modern field drain, possibly early 19th-century, was uncovered in one opening and appeared to be of agricultural provenance. All other activities—land drains, water pipe and geo-technical trial pits—found in the other openings were of modern date.
Nothing of archaeological significance was found in any of the trenches.
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