Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
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
- 53.51720, -6.55175
- SMR number
- ME038-080003-
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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
While the large enclosure, rath and burial ground are preserved under introduced soil in a green area all the available external area was excavated (15E0125) under the direction of S. McGlade in 2018-19 (excavations.ie 2019:474). East of the large rath, in the triangular area available for excavation, two circular or penannular structures and one rectangular feature were recorded in a N-S line with a small enclosure just to the NE. The most northerly structure (2) was D-shaped (int. dims c. 4.5m E-W; c. 2.8m N-S), open to the S, and defined by a fairly flat-bottomed slot-trench (Wth c. 0.3m) or drip-gully with two fills at most. There are no postholes or internal features associated with it but it is c. 3m N of Structure 3 with which it might have been conjoined but the ground between them was truncated by a wide ditch. (McGlade 2020, vol. 1, 67-9)
See the attached illustrations from McGlade (2020 vol. 1, P 75, 76)
_1 Location;
_2 plan;
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 May 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.