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Excavation - miscellaneous

Castlekeeran, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Castlekeeran, 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
Castlekeeran
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.73685, -6.96010
SMR number
ME016-069----

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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 in a gently undulating landscape with a small canalised S-N stream just to the E. Archaeological testing (04E1056) by G. McLoughlin (2005, 3) at Test Area 5 of Contract 5 of the M3 identified archaeological features (excavations.ie 2004:1200) that were in the general area where it was thought locally that there were burials. The features were fully excavated (E003177) by S. Reilly in April 2007 (excavations.ie 2007:1277) as Castlekeeran 2. A ditch (Wth of top 1.6m; D 0.52m) extended SW-NE (L 7m), turned E (L 3.5m) and petered out. Eleven pits (diam. 0.23m; D 0.07m to diam. 0.96m; D 0.16m) were also excavated, most of which were modern as they were cut into the backfill of nineteenth century quarrying. The pits were filled with silts and sands and produced black-glazed earthenware indicating a post-medieval date, but pieces of metal slag but some concentrations of cremated bone were also recovered.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 4 March 2022

References

Reilly, S. and V. Ginn 2008 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 5, Kells to North of Kells. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Castlekeeran 2, Co. Meath. Licence: E003177. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy

McLoughlin, G. 2005 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 5, Kells to North of Kells. Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 9 in Castlekeeran, County Meath. Licence: 04E1056. 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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