County: Meath Site name: RATOATH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0460
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 701879m, N 751912m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.507321, -6.464136
This is the third site tested by the writer in connection with the phased development known as ‘Streamstown’. Four trenches tested this site, located on the north side of the Dunshaughlin road, on the western side of Ratoath village. The site is located in a back garden in an area that Bradley suggested may have retained its medieval strip pattern.
Three trenches tested the interior of the site where the proposed houses are to be built. A fourth shorter trench tested the eastern property boundary. Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed in the trenches. One sherd of green-glazed, 13th-century pottery was recovered. Ratoath was an important de Lacy manor site. Stray finds of medieval pottery in fields around the manorial centre are to be expected.
Reference
Bradley, J. 1988/9 The medieval towns of Meath. Ríocht na Midhe 8(2), 30–49.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
