County: Meath Site name: NOBBER: Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1243
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 692371m, N 786475m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.821707, -6.747940
Meath County Council requested an assessment before the construction of a dwelling-house at the western end of Main Street. The site lies 70m north-east of the former parish church of St John the Baptist and is within the zone of archaeological potential of Nobber. It was occupied in the 20th century by a handball alley. No buildings were marked here on the OS map of 1910.
Two trenches exposed evidence of two succeeding, modern, level surfaces overlying garden soil, to a total depth of 1m below present ground level. Underlying natural subsoil was a fine, light brown/yellow boulder clay with large stones. Evidence of the remains of the floor of the handball alley was found in Trench 2.
In Trench 1, which was parallel to Main Street, two cut features were exposed. One was a possible trench or ditch, and the other was a possible soak-hole or pit. Neither produced material of archaeological significance.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
