County: Cavan Site name: KILMORE UPPER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0484
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 637929m, N 803840m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.982439, -7.421735
Monitoring was a requirement of planning permission to construct a two-storey dwelling-house with associated driveway and septic tank. The development lies some metres north-west of SMR 25:69, a motte and bailey built by de Lacy in 1211. The other monuments of the Kilmore complex lie to the east of the motte and bailey. These comprise the late medieval cathedral building (SMR 25:70), the Romanesque doorway (SMR 25:71) set into the door of the modern Church of Ireland cathedral, a holy well (SMR 25:72) and the remains of the Bishop’s Palace (SMR 25:73), a 17th-century structure.
Monitoring was carried out during removal of topsoil in which three sherds of 19th–20th-century pottery were found. Further reduction of the site then took place in order to provide a flat platform on which to build the house. The reduction was deepest (1.9m) at the north of the site. Throughout, mixed grey-brown stiff stony clay was exposed. No archaeological material was exposed during the reduction of the site and no artefacts were recovered, apart from sherds of late pottery.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
