2017:021 - St Patrick’s National School, St Loman's Street, Trim, Meath

A programme of monitoring took place during the construction of a small single-story extension to the rear of St Patrick’s National School, Trim, Co. Meath. Eleven features were recorded during the work, all of them 19th century or later in date. The features consisted of multiple phases of garden walls, drains and construction levels associated with the Glebe House/Rectory and adjoining stable block. The findings of this monitoring programme are significant – not because of what was found, but because of what was not found! No trace of the medieval town walls was identified within the site, and there was no evidence for a large and wide foundation trench, which we would expect even in the medieval walls had been robbed out. This absence suggests that the currently understood reconstruction of the route of the medieval town wall of Trim, as set out in the Trim Town Walls Conservation Plan and Urban Archaeological Survey, may need to be revised. Attached image shows site location on figure from Trim Town Walls Conservation Plan (Trim Development Plan 2014-2020, Appendix E).

Archaeology Plan, 32 Fitzwilliam Place Dublin 2