2000:0040 - DRUMRANE, Cavan
County: Cavan
Site name: DRUMRANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 00E0412
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Author/Organisation Address: Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
Site type: Building
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 651455m, N 810349m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.039750, -7.214434
The developer was requested by Cavan County Council to carry out an archaeological assessment of his development site. A ‘Fort’ (SMR 16:55) was marked on the first edition OS map, and ‘fort, site of’ on the 1876 edition, at a site 300–400m north of the proposed bungalow.
The development site was occupied by an Ancient Order of Hibernians hall, built in 1915 and demolished in 1999. This was a wooden and galvanised structure. Test-trenches here exposed the stone and clay footings. Other trenches tested the locations of the boundary wall, septic tank and percolation area. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed.