County: Meath Site name: RATOATH: Auld Stand Public House, Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0248 ext.
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 702128m, N 751922m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.507363, -6.460366
This was an extension of an existing licence taken out by Catherine McLoughlin when testing the adjoining site to the east (see No. 1046, Excavations 2001). Medieval features were exposed in the adjoining site, and the current testing at the back of the Auld Stand pub was carried out to establish whether the features extended this far before the construction of an extension to the pub.
Two trenches tested the proposed locations of the eastern and southern walls of this extension. Black silty clay was exposed in both trenches at a depth of 0.6–0.7m. The underlying natural subsoil was soft grey sandy boulder clay. Earlier insertion of services caused disturbance closer to the existing pub building.
Nothing of archaeological significance was observed in the trenches.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
