County: Meath Site name: Rathmolyon
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 16E0131
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 679427m, N 749387m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.488499, -6.803155
An archaeological assessment of this site was requested prior to construction of two houses. It lies to the north-east of a 19th-century church (ME042-020); this may stand on the site of an earlier church which is recorded in Dopping's Visitation Book 1682-5 (Moore 143).
Four trenches were excavated. There was evidence for redeposition of boulder clay along the western half of the site possibly to provide good standing for a yard. The rest of the site was covered with a layer of garden soil that contained loose stone and some pieces of brick. A narrow east-west running brick drain was exposed in Trench 1. Boulder clay was exposed at approx. 0.6m below present ground level. The eastern half of the site had been disturbed by insertion of a septic tank.
No features of archaeological interest were exposed in the trenches. The only artefacts were sherds of 19th/20th-century white earthenware.
Reference:
Moore, M. 1986 Archaeological Inventory of County Meath.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
