County: Meath Site name: TRIM: Mill Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0715
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 680033m, N 757021m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.557001, -6.792064
The Office of Public Works received planning permission to refurbish existing 19th-century buildings that were formerly used for the Trim area office of Meath County Council and the Trim Visitors' Centre. Monitoring was required during ground disturbance.
The site lies within the medieval core of the town of Trim. The old gaol was located in this south-west corner of Mill Street. Its construction dated to 1681 and a new gaol was built in 1834 in a different location. The houses to be refurbished were recorded by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and are dated to c. 1840.
A layer of redeposited yellow boulder clay was exposed during monitoring. It was reduced over the entire car-parking area to a depth of 0.1m, bottoming on a stone layer that contained modern inclusions. The top of what may have been a wall of the 17th-century gaol was exposed in excavation for a manhole but was left undisturbed and the excavation was backfilled. Medieval or earlier material was not exposed.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
