Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
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
- ME038-074006-
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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
Two poorly preserved human burials that had been damaged by post-medieval ploughing were within the area of Enclosure 7, but they could not be linked through stratigraphy with any other features and the remains were not suitable for radiocarbon dating. Burial 1 was a juvenile of indeterminate sex that had probably been supine and aligned W-E. Burial 2 was an adult of unknown sex and only fragments of the skull and arm bones remained. (O’Hara 2009, 40; 2009a)
True location: 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 Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services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.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.