What is recorded here

Baltrasna in County Meath held a medieval house where stone floors and a box-drain still mark the shape of daily life. Thirteenth-century Dublin pottery suggests residents cooked, drank and drained water across a gentle north-facing slope. The house vanished under soil and time, but its rigid stone bones remain waiting for someone to imagine the hands that built them.

Located towards the top of a gentle N-facing slope. Archaeological testing (03E1354) by S. Halliday in Testing Area 18 of the N2 Finglas to Ashbourne road and bypass exposed an area of stone cobbling (excavations.ie 2003:1362) that was excavated by D. Fallon (excavations.ie 2004:1178) under the same licence between January and March 2004. The truncated remains of a stone platform (dims 5.87m E-W; 1.85m N-S) set in a shallow cut (D 0.3m) was recorded c. 2m N of a second floor (dims 2.5m NE-SW; 1.4m NW-SE) also set in a cut (D 0.25m). There was a stone-built box-drain (L 3m; Wth 0.3m; D 0.25m) running NE-SW 2.5m W of the smaller floor that drained S into a mapped field boundary. About 500 sherds of medieval pottery, including Leinster cooking ware and Dublin type wares, were recovered at what is probably a badly eroded house site, although there were no post-holes or hearths evident. Finer Dublin type wares suggests it dates to the thirteenth century. (Fallon 2009, 37-40) See the attached plan from Fallon (2009, fig. 16) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 December 2021

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