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Burnt mound

Derver, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt mound, Derver, 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
Derver
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.75926, -6.98768
SMR number
ME010-052----

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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)
  • 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

Situated on the floor of the valley of the River Blackwater, with a WNW-ESE section of the stream c. 50m to the S. Archaeological testing (04E1060) by D. Bayley (2005) at Testing Area 9 of Contract 5 of the M3 motorway identified archaeological features in a limited area (dims c. 25m x c. 15m) that were completely excavated (E003183) by D. Gallagher in January 2007 (excavations.ie 2007:1298) as Derver 5. Three pits (dims 1.1m x 0.4m; D 0.3m to 1m x 0.9m; D 0.18m), a linear feature (dims 4m x 1.1m; D 0.15-0.3m) and a spread (dims 3.46m x 3.3m; T 0.1m) of mottled brown-grey clayey silt with some charcoal inclusions were excavated. The pits were filled with clay that had some heat-affected stone and charcoal. Samples of charred hazel from a pit produced a C14 date of 43 cal. BC – 126 cal. AD (Beta 247195), while a sample of hazel charcoal from the upper fill of the linear feature yielded a date of 1734-1515 cal. BC (Beta 247194). No trough or mound was identified and no artefacts were recovered but the presence of a burnt mound of two different periods of use is indicated. (Gallagher and Kelleher 2008)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 4 March 2022

References

Gallagher, D. and G. Kelleher 2008 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 5, Kells to North of Kells. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Derver 5, Co. Meath. Licence: E003183. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit

Bayley, D. 2005 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 5, Kells to North of Kells. Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 9 in Derver, County Meath. Licence: 04E1060. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

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

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