County: Waterford Site name: Ranelagh, Athlone
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WM029-042 Licence number: 10E0186
Author: GRAHAM HULL
Site type: Mesolithic artefact, medieval animal bone, post-medieval walls
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 603913m, N 741715m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.425533, -7.941124
Test trenching which took place in 2012 in advance of the construction of sewerage shafts and tunnels at five locations in the centre of Athlone found three stone-built post-medieval or modern walls, unstratified artefacts including a Mesolithic flint blade and post-medieval pottery, glass and clay tobacco pipe. A medieval deposit of animal bone was also found.
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