County: Meath Site name: Dunshaughlin Road, Ratoath
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 19E0585
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 701582m, N 752006m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.508218, -6.468582
Planning permission was granted to construct a dwelling house on the south side of the Dunshaughlin Road out of Ratoath, Co. Meath, subject to several conditions; condition no. 5 called for archaeological testing before commencement of development. The site lies outside the medieval core of Ratoath village (ME044-034 ‘historic town’) but within the Zone of Archaeological Potential.
The ground level to the south of and adjoining the proposed development has been reduced. This formed part of an area that was tested in 2018 by Catherine McLoughlin where gullies and a possible north-east/south-west-running property boundary were found containing some medieval pottery and animal bone. Three east-west-running field drains were found on this site but no pottery or bone was recovered from them.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
