County: Louth Site name: DROMIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0261
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 702849m, N 789454m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.844376, -6.437082
A dwelling-house and associated sewerage system was proposed for this site. The owner was requested to carry out test excavations, the results to be submitted with the planning application.
The site is located at the crossroads at Dromin village immediately south of the Catholic church and graveyard; there is a tradition that a souterrain (SMR 18:13(02)) was exposed during the construction of the schoolyard beside the church. A motte (SMR 18:13(01)) is situated to the west of the Catholic church and to the north of the development site. A medieval church (SMR 18:14) stands on the east side of the road, approximately 150m east of the motte. This church structure may date from the 13th century. The church may stand on the site of the monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Finnian of Moville.
Five trenches tested the site. In all, dark grey silty topsoil covered a yellow-grey boulder clay. A land drain was exposed in Trench 3. It was clear that material had been introduced into the site along the east side to bring it up to the same level as the west side. Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed in the trenches and no artefacts were found.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
