2024:166 - Rochfort Demesne & Carrick, Dalystown, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath Site name: Rochfort Demesne & Carrick, Dalystown

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 24E0146

Author: Ian Russell, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 642500m, N 746244m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.464532, -7.359960

The site at Rochfort Demesne and Carrick, Dalystown, Co. Westmeath, was archaeologically assessed by test trenching in March 2024 in advance of development. The assessment involved the excavation of nineteen test
trenches within the site, each measuring 1.8m in width with a total of 454m of linear trenches excavated. The subsoil was exposed in all trenches below the sod and topsoil at depths varying between 0.2m and 0.6m. It varied from dark grey stoney silty clay to sand and gravel with some rock outcrops. No archaeological features or deposits were identified within the excavated trenches and no finds were recovered. The work is now complete, and no further mitigation is necessary.

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