County: Meath Site name: Church Lane, Trim
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0239
Author: Rosanne Meenan, Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 680153m, N 757138m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.558034, -6.790224
The site is located south of the boundary wall of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Trim (ME036–048). Continuing work in the vicinity of St Patrick’s suggests that it was the earliest ecclesiastical site in the town, pre-dating the arrival of the Anglo-Normans (Potterton 36).
Foundation trenches were monitored. An irregularly shaped shallow pit was exposed in the centre of the site. This was identified as a soak-pit excavated for a privy for a school that had stood on the site until the 1930s. A small square structure is marked in this property on the 25-inch map of 1909 and can be identified as the privy.
Reference
Potterton, M. 2009. Introduction: understanding Trim through the ages. In M. Potterton and M. Seaver (eds), Uncovering medieval Trim, 25–56. Dublin.
