1995:272 - TYRELLSPASS, Westmeath
County: Westmeath
Site name: TYRELLSPASS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 95E0249
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Author/Organisation Address: Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
Site type: Castle - tower house
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 641042m, N 737425m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.385406, -7.383062
Three trenches tested the area south and south-west of the tower house in advance of an extension to the existing hotel facilities. Trench A was placed against the wall of the tower house but no base batter was found; a pit, filled with large water-rolled stones, was interpreted as a soak-pit but it yielded no dating evidence. Trenches B and C revealed evidence for substantial dumping of clay and building rubble to bring up the level of the ground here. This was probably carried out in the last hundred years.