2000:0776 - RATOATH, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: RATOATH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 00E0923
Author: Conor McHale
Author/Organisation Address: 14 Greenmount Lawn, Terenure, Dublin 6
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 701779m, N 751795m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.506290, -6.465680
On appeal from An Bord Pleanála, a monitoring brief was requested on a development of three houses. The houses were constructed at the northern end of a field that lies at the western edge of the village of Ratoath. The boundaries of the field were possibly laid out as part of a medieval strip pattern. No medieval (or earlier) features were encountered during the monitoring of the site. The earliest artefacts recovered were of a Victorian date.