Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
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
- 53.78530, -6.88236
- SMR number
- ME011-051002-
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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 W-facing slope down to a N-S section of the Moynalty River. Archaeological monitoring (07E0942) of a water scheme at Moynalty village identified burnt mound material on the proposed site of a water treatment plant. Only a small part was investigated but it consisted of four small spreads of broken and burnt stone (T 0.6m) and associated features. Other prehistoric features (ME011-051002-) were excavated c. 55m to the NE. The design was altered and the remainder of the burnt mound is preserved in situ. (Clutterbuck 2009, 13-4; 2011)
Compiled by: Michel Moore
Date of upload: 3 April, 2019
References
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 Unpublished report, CRDS
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
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.