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2025:727 - Rataine Graveyard, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath

Site name: Rataine Graveyard

Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME030-011002

Licence number: E005820; C001443

Author: Niall Roycroft

Author/Organisation Address: c/o Meath County Council, Buvinda House, Dublin Road, Navan, Co Meath. C15 Y291.

Site type: Graveyard

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 682822m, N 762493m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.605726, -6.748542

Rataine

Meath County Council completed a worked stone walkover survey and a series of graveyard boundary wall repairs for Rataine Graveyard, ME030-011002. Consent was issued in June 2025. Repairs were completed to all wall collapses in October 2025. No worked stones, human bone or any other potential archaeological objects were encountered. However, there are numerous worked stones and broken up, unstratified human bone from grave digging visible in the graveyard.


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