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
- ME038-074005-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In Area A an arcing ditch (L 16m; Wth 0.75m; D 0.55m) may have linked the fosses of Enclosures 2 and 6 during Phase 2, curving out further E than Enclosure 6 and constituting Enclosure 7. The surviving section of fosse was cut at N by the N ditch of Enclosure 3 during Phase 2. The single fill of the ditch had inclusions of charred barley grain as well as hazel and oak charcoal. The curving ditch enclosed a number of gullies and two human burials, but none of these features could be stratigraphically related to the curving ditch from which no artefacts were recovered. (O’Hara 2009, 17; 2009a)
True location: ITM (695766, 753931)
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 Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services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. 2009a 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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