Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Town Parks (kells Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Parks (kells Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72745, -6.87329
- SMR number
- ME017-044027-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 just W of the graveyard at the site of the Hospital of St. John (ME017-044026-). Archaeological testing (01E0819) in the rear garden of one plot identified a natural spring at one point with medieval pottery in a small deposit (dims 1.1m x 0.5m; D 0.1m) nearby (Meenan 2001, 2003). The spring (diam. 1.2m; D 0.75m) underlay a deposit of masonry rubble with brick and was excavated (03E1899) by Duffy (2006) who interpreted it as a well which had medieval pottery in its fill.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 2 May, 2019
References
Meenan, R. 2003 Headford Place, Kells. Urban post-medieval. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 303, No. 984. Bray, Wordwell
Duffy, C. 2006. Headford Place, Kells. Urban medieval. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 375, No. 1407. Bray, Wordwell
Meenan, R. 2001 Archaeological Test Excavations of a site at Headford Place, Kells, Co. Meath. Licence No. 01E0819. Unpublished report, Archaeological Development Services
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Fratres Cruciferiunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.