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Habitation site

Brittas, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Habitation site, Brittas, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Brittas
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.81766, -6.75607
SMR number
ME005-088015-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Although the E side of the crannog had been destroyed at the upper level the W side was almost completely intact. However, at least one higher level had been removed. The final phase (Z) of Moynagh crannog available for investigation consisted of a peat layer with a charcoal spread which may have been associated with the outer palisade (No. 2) defining the N edge of the crannog. (Bradley 1991, 13; 1994-5, 159-60; O’Sullivan 1998, 108)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 6 September

References

Bradley, J. 1994-5 Excavations at Moynagh Lough, Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe vol. 9, No. 1, 158-69.

Bradley, J. 1991 Excavations at Moynagh Lough. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 111, 5-26.

O'Sullivan, A. 1998 The archaeology of lake settlement in Ireland. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 4. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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