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
- ME038-075005-
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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 B Enclosure 14 consisted of a complex of ditches that formed a rectangular annexe (dims 25m E-W; 18m N-S) abutting the S side of Enclosure 1 and the W side of Enclosure 12 during Phase 2 around the middle of the seventh century. It is not known if it was contemporary with the original establishment of Enclosure 12, or the re-cut of its fosses. The development of the enclosure itself is complicated by the numerous re-cuts of its own ditches. No internal features can be associated with it, but cross-cutting plough marks suggest its use for agriculture at some point. A small quantity of animal bone was recovered from the ditches, together with small amounts of charred oats and wheat. Finds from the ditches include a copper-alloy mount in the form of a cross within a ring. The terminals and the crux are rectangular. (O’Hara 20090, 21; 2009a)
True location: ITM (695687, 753773)
See the attached images from O'Hara (2009, figs 7, 45, pl. 2)
_2 Site plan;
_4 Phase 2;
_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 Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services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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