County: Meath Site name: TRIM: St Patrick’s Park
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0097
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 679833m, N 756621m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.553438, -6.795183
Monitoring was carried out at this site during ground clearance and excavation of wall footings. The house is in the back garden of a property that fronts onto Emmet Street, Trim.
The site is outside the area of the walled town. Emmet Street was one of the main thoroughfares in the medieval town; the town wall crossed Emmet Street some 180–200m to the north of the development site.
The stratigraphy comprised black garden soil mixed with dead vegetation overlying natural sandy clay, mixed yellow/grey in colour. It overlay gravel that contained broken rock, suggesting that bedrock was close to the surface although it was not exposed. Total reduction was to a depth of 1.3m below the level of the adjoining garden to the north.
Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed during clearance and excavation for the house foundations. No artefacts were found.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
