County: Meath Site name: LOUGHSALLAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0295
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Cultivation ridges
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 702828m, N 741024m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.409328, -6.453383
Monitoring of excavation of part of the Clonee—Dunboyne sewerage scheme was carried out in June 1998 in the area of ridge and furrow and a tree ring, which had been recorded by Emmet Byrnes.
A 20m-wide strip was cleared of topsoil by a machine with a grading bucket. The trench for the pipe was then excavated to a depth of 3–4m and to a width of 2–3m, cutting through a ploughsoil and into very sandy material. The area of ridge and furrow stretched eastwards from the field fence east of the tree ring for c. 138m and north-south for c. 40–50m. The pipeline corridor cut the ridge and furrow. The ridges were flat-topped, with 4.5–5m between the top of each ridge; the furrows were c. 1.7m wide. The height of the ridges was c. 350–400mm from top of the ridge to the bottom of the furrow. No finds were recovered from the fill of the furrows.
Nothing of significance was noted during the rest of the soil-stripping and of the trenching.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
