Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
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
- 53.72857, -6.88065
- SMR number
- ME017-044029-
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
Archaeological excavation (E00428) by Gretta Byrne in 1987 and 1988 on the site of a new Garda Station identified a rath (ME017-044028----) and a slightly curved and round-bottomed medieval ditch (Wth 1.2-1.55m; D 0.45-0.8m) that extended NW-SE (L 15m plus) across the development area c. 5m outside the projected line of the E side of the rath. It had a single fill of homogenous brown gravelly loam with some charcoal flecks and bones. Five sherds of glazed pottery, two probably French imports, dating from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century were recovered. The channel probably followed the natural slope, does not appear to have been open long, and would have run E of St Columba’s House (ME017-044011-). (Byrne 1988, 14-5, 26-7)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 April, 2019
References
Byrne, G. 1988 Report on Archaeological Excavation at Townparks, Kells, Co. Meath. Licence No. E000428. Unpublished report, Author
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