Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
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
- 53.71581, -6.89184
- SMR number
- ME017-078----
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 testing (04E0915) by S. Delaney (2005) at Testing Area 12 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified (excavations.ie 2004:1355) a burnt mound spread (dims 6m x 4m) that was completely excavated (E003150) in December 2004 by Y. Whitty as Town Parks 4. By this time it was reduced to a small spread (dims 3m x 2.5m; T 0.1m) of broken and burnt stone. No other features or artefacts were recovered. (Whitty 2010, 5-6)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 March 2022
References
Whitty, Y. 2010 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 4, Navan to Kells and Kells Bypass. Final Report on Town Parks 4, Co. Meath. Licence: E003150. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy
Delaney, S. 2005 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 4, Navan - Kells and Kells Bypass. Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 12 in Rockfield and Town Parks, County Meath. Licence: 04E0915. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy
Whitty, Y. 2010 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 4, Navan to Kells and Kells Bypass. Final Report on Town Parks 6, Co. Meath. Licence: E003152. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy
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