Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Randalstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Randalstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68059, -6.70843
- SMR number
- ME025-005001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in the interior of the rath (ME025-005----). Excavation (E000144) by E. P. Kelly in 1975 of a barrow at Simonstown uncovered a rectangular house. It is described (Kelly 1977) as the foundation trenches of a rectangular structure (max. dims 10.5m x 6.5m) with rounded corners and two internal post-holes. No artefacts are directly associated with it but it appears to be earlier than the Phase III ringfort occupation and numerous hearths and pits with Neolithic material were present in the vicinity.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 March 2023
Kelly, E. P. 1977 A Future for our Past. Pamphlet, Tara Mines
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.