What is recorded here

Enclosure 5 at Roestown was a twenty-metre circular space outside the larger Enclosure 2 during Phase 1. Its ditch avoided cutting the larger boundary, suggesting the smaller circle served or followed the prime enclosure rather than competing with it. No internal features or artefacts survive, leaving the purpose hidden behind a thin line of dug earth.

In Area A Enclosure 5 was a circular area (diam. c. 20m) outside Enclosure 2 at SE during Phase 1, and it was defined by three slight curvilinear sections of a ditch (L 10m; Wth 0.6m; D 0.35m: L 9m; Wth 0.9m; D 0.3m: L 9m; Wth 1.2m; D 0.25m). It abutted the SE edge of Enclosure 2 and a terminal of the smaller enclosure alters direction to avoid cutting a terminal of the larger, suggesting that primacy belongs to Enclosure 2. No internal features associated with this enclosure are recognised and no artefacts of note are recorded from the ditches. (O’Hara 2009, 16; 2009a) True location: ITM (695736, 753908) See the attached plans from O'Hara (2009 figs 9, 44) _2 Site plan; _3 Phase 1 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 April 2022 O’Hara, R. 2009 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Roestown 2, Co. Meath. Licence: E003055. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services O’Hara, R. 2009 Early Medieval Settlement at Roestown 2. In Deevy, M. and Donald Murphy 2009 Places Along the Way, 57-82. NRA Scheme Monographs: 5.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.