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Pit-burial

Drumbaragh, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842) covering the location of Pit-burial, Drumbaragh, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drumbaragh
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.72174, -6.94123
SMR number
ME016-072----

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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 on a gentle S-facing slope. Archaeological centre-line testing (04E1055) by D. Bayley (2005) at Testing Area 4 of Contract 5 of the M3 motorway (excavations.ie 2004:1223) identified archaeological material that was fully resolved (E003174) by E. Danaher in November 2006 as Drumbaragh 2 (excavations.ie 2006:1548). A small scoop (diam. 0.3m; D 0.02m) had a dark-grey silty clay fill with a small amount of cremated bone that might have been animal or human but it returned a C14 date of 1261-1006 cal. BC (Beta 247169) and is probably the remains of a pit-burial. Another small pit (diam. 0.47m; D 0.16m) was filled with a grey-brown silty clay with charcoal flecks and small stone inclusions but no bone was present. A large pit (dims 5.3m x 3.4m; D 0.5m) was filled with a brown clayey silt with some animal bone and small stone inclusions, but this pit is probably recent. (Danaher 2008)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 4 March 2022

References

Bayley, D. 2005 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 5, Kells to North of Kells. Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 4 in Drumbaragh and Castlekeeran, County Meath. Licence: 04E1055. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Danaher, E. 2008 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 5, Kells to North of Kells. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Drumbaragh 2, Co. Meath. Licence: E003174. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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