Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Slab-lined burial
Drumbaragh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbaragh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72637, -6.93275
- SMR number
- ME016-060----
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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
Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. A lintelled burial (dims 1.7m E-W; 0.5m N-S) lined with thin slabs set upright and covered by six lintels was discovered in removing topsoil for a driveway in 1988. It was excavated by Mary Cahill of the National Museum of Ireland assisted by Niall Brady, and the human remains were examined by Barra Ó Donnabháin. It had a W-E orientation and packing stones and support stones were also recorded. It contained the inhumed remains of a young adult female (age 18-25), and a sample yielded a calibrated C14 date of AD 430-670. While no other graves were recovered the recorded burial may be one of a cemetery. (Cahill 2011)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 February 2019
References
Cahill, M. 2011 4. 23 Drumbarragh, Co. Meath. E1134. In Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, 110-113. Dublin, Wordwell Ltd. In association with the National Museum of Ireland
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.