County: Meath Site name: Carranstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: NA Licence number: 17E0550
Author: Declan Moore
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 706101m, N 770311m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.671761, -6.394260
Monitoring was carried out in 2018 of a short area of pipeline that relates to works on the Gaulstown section of the Meath Watermain Rehabilitation - Phase 2. An archaeological assessment report of the overall project was commissioned in 2012 and updated in 2016 (Judith Carroll and Company). The project involved c. 3km of pipe. The works were carried out using the trench-less method and comprised the excavation of launch and receptor pits every approximately 50m.
Inspections of the works took place between April and July 2018. The rehabilitation works were carried out mechanically using directional drilling. The average launch and receptor trench dimensions were 0.4m wide by 1m deep exposing a thick road base below the tarmac over an orange-brown clay or natural gravels. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted during the course of the works.
3 Gort na Rí, Athenry, Co. Galway
