County: Meath Site name: Ratoath
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0173
Author: Rosanne Meenan, Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 702029m, N 751822m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.506484, -6.461905
This site was tested in advance of a planning application to construct two blocks of apartments on the north side of the River Broadmeadow, just south of the Moatlands housing estate.
When excavation commenced it became clear that a huge quantity of building rubble had been dumped on the site creating a very steep slope, up to 5m deep. The rubble derived from the Moatlands development, built in the mid-1990s. It was not possible to bottom the five test-trenches. No mitigatory measures were suggested as it was likely that the apartments were to be built on raft foundations and that the original ground level would remain disturbed.
