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Habitation site

Baltrasna (Ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Habitation site, Baltrasna, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Baltrasna (Ratoath By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.49061, -6.40046
SMR number
ME045-033004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (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

Located towards the top of a gentle N-facing slope. Archaeological testing (03E1354) by S. Halliday in Testing Area 18 of the N2 Finglas to Ashbourne road and bypass exposed an area of stone cobbling (excavations.ie 2003:1362) that was excavated by D. Fallon (excavations.ie 2004:1178) under the same licence between January and March 2004. The truncated remains of a stone platform (dims 5.87m E-W; 1.85m N-S) set in a shallow cut (D 0.3m) was recorded c. 2m N of a second floor (dims 2.5m NE-SW; 1.4m NW-SE) also set in a cut (D 0.25m). There was a stone-built box-drain (L 3m; Wth 0.3m; D 0.25m) running NE-SW 2.5m W of the smaller floor that drained S into a mapped field boundary. About 500 sherds of medieval pottery, including Leinster cooking ware and Dublin type wares, were recovered at what is probably a badly eroded house site, although there were no post-holes or hearths evident. Finer Dublin type wares suggests it dates to the thirteenth century. (Fallon 2009, 37-40)

See the attached plan from Fallon (2009, fig. 16)

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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