Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Raystown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raystown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50218, -6.41954
- SMR number
- ME045-036006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Two major NW-SE field boundaries marked by drains S of the burial ground were established in Phase 2. They are placed c. 20-25m apart and both were frequently re-cut. With some N-S gullies feeding into them they created an area (dim. 20m N-S) N of the outer enclosure of the burial ground where numerous hearths testify to habitation (ME045-036002-), although no houses are recognised. Other NW-SE drains S of the burial ground are similarly spaced and undoubtedly related. Further drains on the same alignment and with similar spacing and cross-drains were being added up to Phase 4 (700-900 AD) but the burial ground was never traversed by these features. In Phases 3-4 the major drains are truncated by the mill-races of the southern mills. The drains are filled generally with deposits containing a high proportion of redeposited natural, which suggests that it derived from accompanying earthen banks. (Seaver 2009, vol. 1, 51-3, 64-5, 96)
See the attached pan from Seaver (2009, vol. 2)
_1 Geophysical evidence (fig. 9)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 December 2021
References
Seaver, M. 2009 N2 Finglas-Ashbourne Road Scheme Report on Archaeological Excavation of Site 21, Raystown, County Meath. Licence: 03E1229. Unpublished Final report, vol. 1, text. CRDS
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.