Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
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
- 53.72628, -6.88184
- SMR number
- ME017-068----
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 on a steep S-facing slope with part of the town wall of Kells at the top of the slope and the probable line of another N-S section of the town wall just to the E. Archaeological testing (01E1023) identified an extensive area (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S), perhaps delimited by linear gullies at E and W, with human remains. Six W-E supine inhumations with the heads at W were in the topsoil (D 0.5-0.7m) and further inhumations may lie at a deeper level. The tested area has numerous linear features such as gullies and a large ditch running parallel with the N-S line of the town wall could be interpreted as a town ditch. Other features, including burnt mound material at four points and extraneous burials further to the W, were also noted. (Halpin and Doyle 2007)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 26 February 2021
References
Halpin, E. and Doyle, S. 2007 Archaeological Impact Assessment for Proposed development at Townparks, Climber Hill, Kells, Co. Meath. Licence: 01E1023. Unpublished report, Archaeological Development Services
Nearby in the register
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.