County: Dublin Site name: GARRISTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0513
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 707088m, N 758634m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.566667, -6.383329
The site is located immediately to the south of a church and graveyard (SMR 3:11(01)). A stone boundary wall separates the graveyard from the development site.
The development comprised the conversion of a 19th-century schoolhouse into two houses and the construction of another house, all as holiday homes. Monitoring was a condition of planning permission.
The ground at the back of the schoolhouse showed evidence for major reduction and disturbance associated with the use of the schoolhouse. The wall footings were cut through black soil and rubbish.
The third house was built on the site of a derelict handball alley. Excavation of wall footings showed that stone and hard core had been introduced to bring up the ground level for the floor of the alley.
Nothing of archaeological significance was observed during monitoring of ground disturbance.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
