Rathskeagh Lower

Area

260,473 m² (26.05 ha, 64.36 acres)

Buildings

6 buildings touch it, 855 m² on the ground

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Rathskeagh Lower

Planning applications on this parcel

• 20 Feb 2024Conditional

  construction of a slatted shed with concrete area’s with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460041

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• WM024-044 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated in fairly low-lying, rough pasture with moderate views in all directions. A cist (WM024-045----) lies c. 125m to SE. Monument described in 1971 and 1977 as a large, oval-shaped area enclosed by a well-preserved bank, a short section of an intervening fosse and outer bank. The inner earth and stone bank is high and steep on the exterior but rises only slightly above the interior. A short portion of shallow fosse is visible at S and there is a low outer bank beyond this which cuts across the fosse and into the base of the enclosure bank. It is unclear if this is an original feature. There are vague traces of a possible structure adjoining the exterior of the scarp at SW. The interior rises gently from the perimeter to the centre and is divided by internal banks. There are rocky outcrops and cultivation ridges in the S and W quadrants. In the E quadrant, inside the bank, is a potential house site, however this is ill-defined and inconclusive. The N quadrant has linear banks running N-S towards the centre. Outline of monument and internal divisions clearly visible on oblique aerial photographs taken 12/09/1966 (CUCAP AOY091/092/099). See attached plan of enclosure surveyed and drawn by the ASI Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 12 August 2019

• WM024-045 Cist
  Description

  Situated in a gently rounded gravelly knoll, in tillage. An enclosure (WM024-044----) lies c. 125m to NW. Monument described as a subsurface feature which was the subject of full excavation by John Sheehan in 1982, revealing a cist burial approx. 0.2-0.3m below the present ground surface: This is a short, slightly wedge-shaped stone-lined grave (Wth at N end 0.57m; Wth at S end 0.68m; L 0.8m N-S; D 0.55m) containing human remains. It was discovered when the capstone was dislodged during ploughing, exposing a void beneath. It is defined by a single piece of limestone on each of the four sides. Behind each of these side stones were horizontally laid stones designed to relieve the weight of the capstone and were further strengthened by the placing of cushion stones at each corner. The capstone was a limestone flag (dims. 1.3m N-S; 1m E-W; T 0.2m) which was found ex-situ after its recent exposure. The contents of the cist appear to have been disturbed prior to this, sometime in the post-medieval period. The cist had been constructed in an oval pit (max. Wth 1.8m E-W; D 0.75-0.85m) which had been excavated from a gravelly subsoil. Several larger stones had been backfilled into the pit to provide support to the side stones of the cist. There was no prepared floor i.e. paving or clay. The upper layer of the pit was disturbed during the recent exposure and contained several human bones. The lower layer was more consolidated and contained more human remains which were primarily intact. In the lower fill there were several small quartz pebbles, 17 rim and body sherds of Bronze Age pottery and one sherd of 17th century Cistercian ware. Excavation of the pit revealed a single waste piece of white, patinated flint flake. Analysis of the human remains by Professor C.A. Erskine, Department of Anatomy at Trinity College Dublin revealed that these were of two individuals. One was an adult male and the other of a child of indeterminate sex. Pottery analysis identified that the pot was of the Bowl Tradition of the Early Bronze Age. Despite only 25% of the whole pot surviving, there were enough rim sherds to confirm an overall rim diameter of 0.14m. See attached plan and cross-section of the cist and pit surveyed and drawn during the excavation by J. Sheehan in 1982. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 12 August 2019

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

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