Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Moynalty, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moynalty
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78561, -6.88171
- SMR number
- ME011-051001-
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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
Located on a slope down to the E bank of a N-S section of the Owenroe or Moynalty River. Archaeological monitoring (07E0942) of a water scheme at Moynalty identified prehistoric features on a proposed entry lane to a water treatment plant. There were 14 features including 2 pits (dims 0.7m x 0.6m; D 0.1m: 1.2m x 1.06m, D 0.14m) and a gully (Wth 1.2m D 0.48m; L 6m plus), which were probably at the edge of more complex settlement features. Few artefacts were recovered but a flint blade and two pieces of prehistoric pottery were found. The burnt mound (ME011-051002-) is c. 55m to the SW. (Clutterbuck 2009, 10-12; 2011)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 April, 2019
References
Clutterbuck, R. 2011 Ballair / Moynalty Demesne /Shancarnan, Moynalty Early Bronze Age settlement and burnt mound. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2008: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 288, No. 970. Bray, Wordwell
Clutterbuck, R. 2009 Preliminary Report on Archaeological Excavations at Moynalty, Co. Meath, on Bundled Wastewater Collection System for Co. Meath. Licence No. 07E0942. Unpublished report, CRDS
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.