2013:498 - Rathwire Lower, Rathwire, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath Site name: Rathwire Lower, Rathwire

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 13E0160

Author: Aidan O’Connell

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 657609m, N 751018m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.505994, -7.131571

Testing for the site of a proposed new school in Rathwire, Co. Westmeath was carried out in a 1.62ha green field. Ten trenches with a total length of 706m were excavated. Subsoil consisted of coarse sand and gravel with patches of a mid to light orange brown stiff clay. No archaeological features were recorded.

 

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