County: Meath Site name: NAVAN CONVENT ROAD FILTERED PERMEABILITY SCHEME - TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TRIAL: CCTV installation
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME025-032001 and ME025-032002, ME025-031 Licence number: Unlicensed
Author: Niall Roycroft
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 687578m, N 767527m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.650179, -6.675282
Meath County Council proposed the NAVAN CONVENT ROAD FILTERED PERMEABILITY SCHEME - TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TRIAL: CCTV installation (approx. 630m). The works have a central point of ITM: 687578, 767527 and are in proximity to Athlumney Castle, ME025-032001 and ME025-032002, which form National Monument No. 287 and Athlumney Church and Graveyard, ME025-031. In addition the works crossed the Protected Structure Athlumney Railway Bridge NT025-135 and are in proximity to Convent Road Mercy Convent NT025-138, Boyne Cottage NT025-133 and St Michael’s Loreto Convent boundary wall NT025-131.
The Convent Road works comprised:
• Approximately 625m of CCTV ducting 240mm deep x 30mm wide in the existing road pavement
• 3 CCTV Pole excavations, each approximately 1.5m x 1.5m x 1m deep
• 3 ESB Connection trenches totalling approx. 25m x min 0.6m deep with connection pits c. 1m x 1m x 0.6m deep
Previous archaeological works in Convent Road (Excavations.ie 1998:500 (no Licence)) showed that the present road was laid on ground-raising dumps. These dumps probably coincide with the construction of the large embankment for the Athlumney Railway Bridge of c.1845-50 both east and west of the Navan-Drogheda Railway cutting. This large embankment has roadside walls and these double as the mid-19th-century St Michael’s Loreto Convent boundary to the west of the Railway Bridge.
Due to the limited nature of the proposed works no Licence was taken out for the monitoring works.
Works and Archaeological Monitoring were completed between September and November in 2021. No archaeological remains were seen.
c/o Meath County Council
