2016:009 - ROUGHGRANGE, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: ROUGHGRANGE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME027-080 ENCLOSURE
Licence number: 15E0351
Author: Carmel Duffy
Author/Organisation Address: Umberstown Great, Co. Meath
Site type: Battlefield
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 701411m, N 771635m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.684585, -6.464778
Monitoring of groundworks was carried out prior to the construction of a forest harvesting road, which was a total of c. 480m long.
A metal detection survey of the site was first carried out, under licence 15R0091, on account of its proximity to the location of some of the action at the Battle of the Boyne. No archaeologically significant material was disclosed by the metal detection survey.
No material of an archaeological nature was disclosed by the monitor.