Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Roestown (ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roestown (ratoath By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52658, -6.55604
- SMR number
- ME038-074003-
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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
In Area A Enclosure 5 was a circular area (diam. c. 20m) outside Enclosure 2 at SE during Phase 1, and it was defined by three slight curvilinear sections of a ditch (L 10m; Wth 0.6m; D 0.35m: L 9m; Wth 0.9m; D 0.3m: L 9m; Wth 1.2m; D 0.25m). It abutted the SE edge of Enclosure 2 and a terminal of the smaller enclosure alters direction to avoid cutting a terminal of the larger, suggesting that primacy belongs to Enclosure 2. No internal features associated with this enclosure are recognised and no artefacts of note are recorded from the ditches. (O’Hara 2009, 16; 2009a)
True location: ITM (695736, 753908)
See the attached plans from O'Hara (2009 figs 9, 44)
_2 Site plan;
_3 Phase 1
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 April 2022
O’Hara, R. 2009 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Roestown 2, Co. Meath. Licence: E003055. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
O’Hara, R. 2009 Early Medieval Settlement at Roestown 2. In Deevy, M. and Donald Murphy 2009 Places Along the Way, 57-82. NRA Scheme Monographs: 5.
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