County: Meath Site name: TRIM: Manorland 1st Division
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0412
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 680195m, N 756724m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.554309, -6.789700
Excavation of an ESB trench on the north side of Trim Castle (SMR 36:25), between the castle and the south bank of the River Boyne, was monitored. The trench was excavated to a depth of approximately 0.7m with a 10in. bucket. It was approximately 220m long and was cut through made-up ground and fill all along its length. The fill was brought in as part of the castle restoration work and comprised black clay containing a lot of loose stones. At the west end of the trench, the fill comprised layers of hard core and stone laid down in recent times to provide surfaces here. This area was previously disturbed by insertion of an electrical cable and by a north–south sewage pipe. A sewage pipe also runs east–west in this area, lying at a deeper level; it was not exposed. For part of its length the ESB trench was placed on top of this pipe. Close to its eastern end the ESB trench also passed over an existing Wavin pipe that brings overflow water from the recently installed moat down to the riverbank.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
