Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Dulane, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dulane
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75394, -6.87875
- SMR number
- ME011-037003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Archaeological testing (96E0118) in advance of a graveyard extension explored an area (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 30m N-S) N of the old graveyard. An E-W ditch (Wth of top 2.3-3.5m; D 1.3) with stratified layers was encountered in two trenches c. 5m from the graveyard wall and parallel with it. Immediately outside this feature a larger fosse (Wth of top 4m plus; D 2.3m plus) was encountered, and both of these ditches may be from the N edge of an ecclesiastical enclosure. (Meenan 1996; 1996a; 1997)
Compiled by: MIchael Moore
Date of upload: 9 April, 2019
References
Meenan, R. 1997 Dulane: Early Christian. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1996: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 85-6, No. 305. Wordwell, Bray
Meenan, R. 1996a Further archaeological testing at Dulane graveyard, Kells, Co. Meath. Licence No. 96E0118. Unpublished report, Author
Meenan, R. 1996 Archaeological assessment of a site at Dulane, Co. Meath. Licence No. 96E0118. Unpublished report, Author
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.