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Hearth

Town Parks (Kells Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hearth, Town Parks, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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
53.71379, -6.87430
SMR number
ME017-079----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · 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 fairly level landscape. Archaeological testing (04E0916) by S. Delaney (2005) at Testing Area 11 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified (excavations.ie 2004:1271) archaeological material that was partially excavated (E003148) in December 2006 and January 2007 by C. Gleeson (2010) as Town Parks 2 when an area of 1300 square metres was opened in two areas, and some hearths and pits were recorded (excavations.ie 2007:1396). In Area B an oval pit (dims 2.9m NW-SE; c. 1.3m NE-SW; D 0.45m) with five fills of variously coloured sandy clays is interpreted as a possible hearth or fire-pit. A sample of young oak charcoal from a basal fill provided a C14 date of 4324-4245 cal. BC (UBA 12114), placing it in the later Mesolithic. This large pit is beside a smaller, shallower hearth (dims 0.65m x 0.35m; D 0.2m) with a basal deposit of orange/yellow sandy clay. The area was cut by numerous NE-SW post-medieval furrows and some large NW-SE post-medieval refuse pits. (Gleeson 2010)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 March 2022

References

Delaney, S. 2005 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 4, Navan - Kells and Kells Bypass. Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 11 in Gardenrath, Grangegoddan Glebe and Kilmainham, County Meath. Licence: 04E0916. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Gleeson, C. 2010 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 4, Navan to Kells and Kells Bypass. Final Report on Town Parks 2, Co. Meath. Licence: E003148. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Nearby in the register

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

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