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
- ME038-075006-
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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 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 Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services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.
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