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
- 53.52561, -6.55702
- SMR number
- ME038-075001-
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
In Area B Enclosure 10 (dims 25m N-S; 17m E-W) functioned as an annexe on the E side of Enclosure 1 during Phase 1 in the late sixth century. Initially it was defined by a slightly curving fosse (L 27m; Wth 0.85m; D 0.6m) at its E side. This was replaced by L-shaped fosses at N (Wth 0.95m; D 0.37m) and S (Wth 0.9m; D 0.47m) with a small gap (Wth c. 0.5m) between them. The annexe is just S of the entrance area of Enclosure 1, and there is a wide entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) between its fosse and that of Enclosure 1 at N. The ditches contained animal bone and charred oats, barley and wheat, and they enclosed Structure D that may have been associated with non-ferrous metal-working. (O’Hara 2009, 18; 2009a)
True location: ITM (695713, 753832)
See the attached images from O'Hara (2009, figs 7, 44; Pl 2)
_2 Site plan;
_3 Phase 1;
_7 aerial view;
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 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 Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services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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