Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Newtown (Kells Lower By., Kilmainham ED), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (Kells Lower By., Kilmainham ED)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84937, -6.85488
- SMR number
- ME005-105001-
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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)
- 1869 · 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
A pit burial containing an unusually small vase urn (H c. 0.22m) was inserted in the floor of the Neolithic house (ME005-105----). (Halpin and Gowen 1991, 38; Gowen 1992, 27)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 September 2018
References
Gowen, M. 1992 A neolithic house at Newtown. Archaeology Ireland 6, no. 2, 25-7.
Halpin, E. and Gowen, M. 1991 Newtown: Neolithic house. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1991: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 37-9. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.