County: Westmeath Site name: PIERCEFIELD OR TEMPLEORAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1176
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 635445m, N 753975m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.534531, -7.465322
Planning permission was granted to demolish a house and construct a new residence on the site. An assessment was required. The site is located on the west side of Templeoran graveyard (SMR 11:99), which may have had an early Christian foundation.
The existing house was a single-storey, three-room structure with central fireplace and a slate roof. More modern windows were inserted relatively recently. The clay walls had concrete-block inserts in places. When the foundations of the demolished house were exposed, the clay walls were seen to have been built immediately on top of the ground surface.
Seven trenches tested the footprint of the proposed new house. Evidence was exposed along Trench 3 for 19th-century disturbance in this part of the site. This comprised a series of three pits, two of which contained 19th-century bottle glass at the base. The function of these pits was not clear.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
