2026:193 - Main Street, Moate, Westmeath
County: Westmeath
Site name: Main Street, Moate
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WM030-111
Licence number: 26E0548
Author: Niall Gregory / Gregory Archaeology
Author/Organisation Address: Dunburbeg, Clonmel Road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 618655m, N 738325m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.394750, -7.719521
Archaeological test excaavtion took place in advance of residential development. The site was situated within the Zone of Notification for RMP WM030-111 – a motte and bailey. The test excavation took place in a 19th-century enclosed yard to the rear of an 18th-century street-fronting dwelling. The four test trenches identified a shallow 20th-century imported topsoil over the natural subsoil, which retained 20th-century drainage sumps and a drainage ditch. The sole artefactual deposits consisted of late 19th-century to 20th-century crockery sherds.