County: Meath Site name: Townparks/Fosterfields/Bunboggan, Athboy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME029-023, ME029-023001, ME029-023003 and 023012 Licence number: C000546
Author: Billy Quinn
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 671425m, N 764121m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.622031, -6.920343
Monitoring in Athboy, Co. Meath was carried out between June and July 2013. Resurfacing, footpath and kerb up-grading works took place throughout O’Growney Street, Main Street and Upper and Lower Bridge Street. The majority of the excavation works were carried out by a Cold Mill Planer. Typically the works involved planing the road surface to a depth of between 0.4-0.6m removing layers of tarmac and roadbase and exposing the underlying brown, silty clay gravel subsoil. Monitoring of the works exposed eight features including cobble sets and guttering along Main Street, an old culvert along Lower Bridge Street and three areas of peaty ground containing organic debris including some fragments of animal bone. No additional finds or features were noted.
Moore Group, Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Galway
