Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Baltrasna (ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baltrasna (ratoath By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49052, -6.39800
- SMR number
- ME045-033----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the top of a gentle N-facing slope. Archaeological testing (03E1354) by S. Halliday in Area 17 of the N2 Finglas to Ashbourne road and bypass (excavations.ie 2003:1362) recorded two ditches of a field system that was further excavated by D. Fallon between January and March 2004 under the same licence (excavations.ie 2004: 1178). The two primary ditches ran N-S (L 19.8m plus; max. Wth 2.4m; max. D 0.9m) and WNW-ESE (L 50m plus; max. Wth 2.4m; max. D 1m), and would have met off the excavated area to the S. A sample of ash charcoal from the primary fill of the latter ditch yielded a C14 date of 1030-1220 cal. AD. Seed grains from the fills intimate the proximity of grain processing, and pottery from the ditches suggests a thirteenth century date as does a silver penny of Edwards I dating from 1280-83 that was recovered from the topsoil. (Fallon 2009, 34-7)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 December 2021
References
Fallon, D. 2009 N2 Finglas-Ashbourne Road Scheme. Report on Archaeological Excavation of Site 17/18 Baltrasna, County Meath. Licence: 03E1354 (ext.) Unpublished report, CRDS
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.