2014:205 - KELLS: Townparks, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath

Site name: KELLS: Townparks

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 14E0223

Author: Aidan O'Connell, Archer Heritage Planning

Author/Organisation Address: 8 Beat Centre, Stephenstown, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 673471m, N 776237m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.730607, -6.886555

Test trenching was carried out at the site of the proposed Eureka Secondary School, a 4.32 ha green-field site in Kells, Co. Meath. Seven test trenches totalling 900m were excavated within the site following a geophysical survey. Subsoil consisted of a compact orange brown stony clay. Topsoil was consistently deep across the majority of the site, ranging from 0.65-0.85m deep. No archaeological finds or features were recorded.