2014:255 - KELLS: Medical Centre, Dublin Road, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: KELLS: Medical Centre, Dublin Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: Unlicensed Monitoring
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21, Boyne Business Park Greenhills, Drogheda, Co Louth
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 675092m, N 775685m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.725416, -6.862128
Unlicensed monitoring carried out prior to the construction of a new primary care medical centre located on the Dublin Road, Kells, Co. Meath between 13 and 27 March 2014. The site appears to have been subject to topsoil stripping a number of years ago and contained a number of mounds of topsoil from this earlier phase of works. In the intervening years the site has become overgrown and a very thin layer of dark organic matter has formed. It generally appears that the site has been subject to high levels of ground disturbance including high levels of disturbance of the natural ground below the original topsoil.
No archaeological features or deposits were identified and it appears that no archaeological features were disturbed during the original top soil stripping of the site a number of years ago.