County: Meath Site name: RATOATH: Dunshaughlin Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0275
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 701879m, N 751912m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.507321, -6.464136
Planning permission was granted to construct fourteen two-storey semi-detached houses with associated access road and services. In the original grant of planning permission the developer was required to have all subsurface work monitored. However, he was subsequently requested by Dúchas to carry out pre-development test excavation instead of monitoring.
The topography of this development site had been altered and terraced during construction of glasshouses.
Three trenches tested the locations of the main elements of the development. Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed and no artefacts were found. It may have been the case that construction of the glasshouses destroyed any existing archaeological material.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
