Archaeology:

The Project Archaeologists

The Office, in common with many of the other Regional Design Offices, has a small in-house archaeological team. This team is employed directly by the National Roads Authority and co-ordinates the archaeological aspects of the schemes being managed by the office, which incorporates the pre-planning stages of road design to the on-site archaeological investigation and resolution phases, to the post-excavation and publication of the results. In certain cases the team also bring specialist knowledge and assistance to schemes being developed by neighbouring local authorities.

The team currently consists of Senior Project Archaeologist Ronán Swan and Project Archaeologist Orlaith Egan.

Archaeology Articles:

Below are the most recent archaeology items added to the site.

You can view all available archived archaeology articles and notices by scheme or category by clicking the following links:  M4KEK  N6K2A  N4  N52BP  General 

 

Archaeological exhibition at Belvedere House, Co. Westmeath

General News, Posted by Serena O'Connor - 3 Apr 2008

Have you ever wondered how people lived in the past? Where did they live? How did they die? What did they work at? These are some of many questions that will be answered at this new exhibition, which will portray life in early medieval times in Co. Westmeath.

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Archaeological Seminar, 11th November 2006, Mullingar Arts Centre

General News, Posted by Ronán Swan - 25 Sep 2006

Westmeath National Roads Design Office is pleased to announce details of the forthcoming seminar on the results from recent archaeological excavations on National Road Schemes.

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Archaeological Project At Gainstown National School, Mullingar

N52BP News, Posted by Orlaith Egan - 23 Feb 2006

An archaeological school project was held at Gainstown National School in January this year to introduce primary school children to archaeology and history in their locality. The project focused on the work of the archaeologist, osteoarchaeologist and museum curator. A series of presentations were given by archaeologists (Ronan Swan & Orlaith Egan, Westmeath County Council, Project Office), an osteoarchaeologist (Dr. Pat Quinney, Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.) and a museum education officer (Sara Cummins, National Museum of Ireland).

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