County: Meath Site name: BLACKFRIARY, Trim
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0062
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 680233m, N 756921m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.556072, -6.789073
The development comprises a bungalow and associated structures on a site fronting onto the Navan–Trim road. It is surrounded on the north and east sides by new housing, and there is an existing bungalow to the west. The site is located on ground that is 1–1.5m higher than the public road. When the new houses to the east of this plot were built, the ground level for them was reduced to the level of the road.
Monitoring of site reduction was carried out over a period of days. An entranceway was excavated through the high ditch fronting on the road and was graded up to the site of the house. Following this the ground level was reduced inside the site. The site was covered with a layer of grassed-over modern rubbish that presumably had been dumped when the houses to the east were being constructed. Underlying this the old ground level was exposed, comprising a sod layer with ploughsoil underneath. This layer was removed, and the site was levelled on a hard, yellow, sandy, boulder clay containing a lot of stones.
In total, material up to 1.5m in depth was removed from the site. Foundation trenches were cut into the boulder clay. Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed, and no artefacts were found.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
