County: Meath Site name: 1 The Cottage, Donacarney, Mornington
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME021-009 Licence number: 20E0351
Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 713684m, N 774877m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.711181, -6.277880
A programme of archaeological test trenching was carried out at 1 The Cottage, Donacarney, Co. Meath.
The sod and topsoil measured an average of 0.4m in thickness and lay above the natural orange clay and stone. Only one feature (C102) was identified within Trench 1. This feature was orientated north-south and had been filled with a mid-brown-grey clay containing stone and red brick and was interpreted as the remains of the 19th-century field boundary still extant on the first edition OS 6-inch map of 1835. The linear feature (C202) identified within Trench 2 appeared to have been associated with the adjacent septic tank and represented a service duct. No features were identified within Trench 3.
No archaeological features or deposits were exposed or identified and no finds were recovered. The work is now complete.
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