2023:577 - Kinoristown, Ballintry, Rowan, and Belgree townlands, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: Kinoristown, Ballintry, Rowan, and Belgree townlands
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a
Licence number: 23E0725
Author: Liam Coen c/o Courtney Deery Heritage Consultancy
Author/Organisation Address: Lynwood House, Ballinteer, Dublin 16
Site type: Testing, various site types
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 704460m, N 744880m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.443639, -6.427580
Test excavations took place in a site within the townlands of Kinoristown, Ballintry, Rowan, and Belgree, Co. Meath. A total of 20 archaeological sites were identified during the course of assessment that also included a desktop survey and geophysical survey (Bird & Young 2023; Licence no. 23R0027). Trenches were principally located to investigate the results of the geophysical survey. 35 trenches were excavated in total. The 20 sites comprised Recorded Monuments ME051-015001 and ME051-015002 ring-ditches; and ME051-004-Ringfort; as well as four undated enclosures; four burnt mound sites; 3 other possible ring-ditches, undated settlement activity and a field system associated with one of the enclosures.
References:
Bird, C. & Young, T. 2023 ‘Geophysical Survey Report. Archaeological Magnetic Gradiometry Survey. Kinoristown and parts of Rowan, Ballintry and Belgree Townlands, County Meath, Licence no. 23R0027’. Unpublished report prepared by TerraDAT UK
