Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Trevet, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Trevet
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55133, -6.55524
- SMR number
- ME038-067001-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a shelf excavated into a gentle SW-facing slope. Archaeological testing (04E0418) by J. Dempsey of Testing Area 4, Contract 2, prior to the construction of the M3 motorway identified a cobbled surface (Dempsey 2004, 22-3). The area was excavated (E003067) intermittently by S. Rathbone as Trevet 1 (excavations.ie 2006:1646) between November 2005 and December 2006 when a section of road leading to buildings in a cobbled area were recorded. There was also evidence of a prehistoric burnt mound at the N edge of the excavated area.
The cobbled road (Wth c. 5m) ran W-E (L 20m plus) and was accompanied by a ditch (Wth 2m; D 0.6m; L 30m) on the S side that turned S at its W end and accompanied a modern N-S road bank, c. 1m E of it. The cobbles of the W-E road extended over the N edge of the ditch and across its base. The N edge of the road was less well defined, and a thinner cobbling extended N (c. 6.5m) from it. A small outbuilding, evident as two stretches of wall, may have been at the NW edge of this thinner cobbling. (Rathbone 2009, 4)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 April 2022
References
Dempsey, J. 2004 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan. Report on the Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 4, Clowanstown, Co. Meath. Licence: 04E0418. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Rathbone, S. 2009 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Trevet 1, Co. Meath. Licence: E003067. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.