2012:609 - ATHLONE: Ranelagh, Westmeath
County: Westmeath
Site name: ATHLONE: Ranelagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WM029-042
Licence number: 10E0186
Author: Graham Hull, TVAS (IRELAND) LTD.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
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.