County: Cavan Site name: DRUMRANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0412
Author: Rosanne Meenan
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.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
