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Situated on a slight S-facing slope. A system of fields (dims c. 60-150m N-S; c. 40-50m E-W) defined by single ditches was encountered during archaeological monitoring (15E0125) by S. McGlade in Phase 1 of the archaeological mitigation connected with a housing development (excavations.ie 2018: 032). The drains…

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Situated on a slight S-facing slope. A system of fields (dims c. 60-150m N-S; c. 40-50m E-W) defined by single ditches was encountered during archaeological monitoring (15E0125) by S. McGlade in Phase 1 of the archaeological mitigation connected with a housing development (excavations.ie 2018: 032). The drains extended S from the medieval roadway (ME038-051----) that is the precursor of the present Dunshaughlin - Drumree road. The drains (Wth 1.2-1.25m; D 0.0.36-75m to Wth 1.6m; D 0.65m) can be U or V-shaped and are filled with silty clays, often with a stone content added to facilitate drainage. Sometimes the ditches have been re-cut. The ditches were sampled at various points and the few artefacts recovered suggest that they date from the high medieval period. Collectively they form a pattern of rectangular fields laid out perpendicular to the road. Close to the road the fields are large (dims c. 150m N-S; c. 40-50m E-W) but further S the length could decrease (c. 60-70m). The mapped post-medieval field system is laid out along similar lines but these fields are thought to date to the twelfth to fourteenth century. (McGlade 2020, vol. 1, 51-61) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 December 2021

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME044-052

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