Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

In Area B Enclosure 15 is a rectangular annexe (dims 30m E-W; 10m N-S) attached to the S of Enclosure 1 during Phase 2 in the eight century as a replacement for Enclosures 12 and 14. The ditch sections (Wth 0.7-1.2m; D 0.17-0.7m) were re-cut at least once, and animal bone was present in small quantities. A small triangular addition (max. dims 15m N-S; 8m E-W) was made at the E end after the infilling of the original E side. Artefacts recovered included iron knives, a D-shaped copper-alloy buckle and carved bone trial-pieces with interlace comparable to samples from Lagore crannog (ME038-027----) that could date to the eight or ninth centuries AD. One horse radius had eleven complete carved panels of interlace and several in an incomplete state. (O’Hara 2009, 22; 2009a)

True location: ITM (695799, 753787)

See the attached images from O'Hara (2009, figs 2, 47, pl. 2)
_2 Site plan;
_4 Phase 2;
_7 Aerial view;

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 Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services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.