County: Meath Site name: BALRATH: Balrath crossroads
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: C154, E2461
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 700596m, N 764942m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.624624, -6.479270
Ministerial consent was granted to Meath County Council, prior to road widening at Balrath crossroads, for the relocation of Balrath cross, a wayside cross of late medieval date. The development of a slip road from Balrath crossroads on to the N2 (Ashbourne to Navan) required road widening of c. 2m. A stone wall was dismantled in order to be rebuilt 2m further back. The proposed route of the slip road was located on a greenfield area that had been bounded by the stone wall. Balrath cross had been incorporated into the stone wall in the 19th century.
Although the site was located close to monuments ME032–009–11, topsoil-stripping in the area on 24 October yielded no results of archaeological significance.
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