County: Meath Site name: TIMOOLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1390
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 701699m, N 764509m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.620522, -6.462748
Planning permission was sought to retain and complete a new house that stands on the site of an earlier house marked on the first-edition OS map. The earlier house was associated with ranges of outhouses that have since been demolished. The house stands 30m east of Timoole graveyard (SMR 32:13). Timoole was listed as a manorial village by Graham (1975), but there was probably a church on the site before the coming of the Anglo-Normans.
The ground in the vicinity of the house had been reduced by up to 1m. Three trenches tested ground that had not been reduced. These exposed a loose black topsoil varying in depth. Natural subsoil comprised very loose, coarse gravel with much broken stone in places. Two other trenches tested locations closer to the house where the ground was already reduced. Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed in any of the trenches.
Reference
Graham, B. 1975 Anglo-Norman settlement in Co. Meath. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 75C (11), 223–48, appendix, no. 59.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
