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Flat cemetery

Cregg, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Flat cemetery, Cregg, 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
Cregg
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.84731, -6.73943
SMR number
ME006-067----

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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

Located on a shelf just off the summit at SW of a prominent natural knoll of limestone outcrop (dims of base c. 250m N-S; c. 170m N-S; dims of top c. 90m N-S; c. 50m E-W; max. H c. 10m at NE to c. 30m at SW). Archaeological testing (05E0526) uncovered four small pits (diam. 0.12-0.25m) filled with a charcoal-rich clay that had burnt stone and bone inclusions. They were cut into a band of orange-brown subsoil (L c. 12m) amongst the rock outcrop nodes. A larger pit (diam. 1.3m) was nearby and three other pits (diam. 0.1-0.12m) were found in another trench c. 1.5m to the SW. About 20m to the NE and closer to the summit two pits (diam. 0.5m; 0.6m) are recorded, one of which produced a sherd of poorly made, crumbly pottery that is probably prehistoric. A trench on the W side of the knoll produce evidence of three linear features including a probable ditch (Wth of top 3.4m) aligned E-W and apparently extending down a steep slope. (O’Carroll 2005)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 26 February 2021

O’Carroll, E. 2005 Archaeological Assessment at Cregg Townland, Co. Meath. Licence: 05E0526. Unpublished report, The Archaeology Company

Nearby in the register

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

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