County: Meath Site name: Slane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 20E0366
Author: Conor Brady
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 696448m, N 774643m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.712547, -6.538947
Monitoring of groundworks in advance of the development of a community centre was carried out in August 2020. The development in Slane townland is located immediately to the west of St. Patrick’s National School on the Collon Road (N2) c.650m north of the crossroads in Slane village. The development is adjacent to a souterrain (ME019-008) and a range of other monuments are recorded in the vicinity.
Seven features were identified during monitoring of soil stripping. One of these was natural – an area of rock outcropping – and the remaining six were of recent or very recent origin. Most of these related to attempts to improve drainage at the northern end of the site.
42 Ledwidge Hall, Drogheda Road, Slane, Co. Meath
