Building in Castlefarm, County Meath

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Situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape, with the WNW-ESE Castle River c. 100m to the N. Archaeological testing (04E1040) by C. Cotter during 2005 uncovered the foundations of this structure just outside the outer edge of the fosse of the medieval ring-work castle (ME050-021007-) at E (excavations.ie 2005:1175). Parts of the W and S walls (Wth 1m) with the NW and SW angles of a rectangular building (ext. dims 8.65m plus E-W; c. 8m N-S) were recorded. The battered base of the W wall (H 0.6m) extended into the top of the enclosure fosse but it was not properly aligned with the ditch edge, indicating that the latter was fully backfilled when the wall was built. A blue/white jug, imported from the Low Countries and dating from the sixteenth century at the earliest is associated with this building as were two mid-sixteenth century coins. (Cotter 2008, 291) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 October 2021

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME050-021009

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