County: Meath Site name: TRIM: Emmet Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 36:48 Licence number: 01E0615 ext.
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 678934m, N 756621m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.553574, -6.808760
Testing to the rear of the west side of Emmet Street, Trim, revealed that the core of the medieval town wall survived at the rear end of the site and that a shallow and narrow ditch, which may have had a defensive function, lay outside the wall.
The entire line of the wall from the river south to the south-west corner of the town was surveyed. This showed that the wall survived almost all of the way along its line but to varying degrees. There may also have been a mural tower set roughly centrally between the south-west corner of the town and the river to the north.
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