Burial

The National Monuments Service's description

The later part of the Iron Age (88 BC – 500 AD) and the early part of the Early Medieval Period (500-11 AD) are represented by a rectangular enclosure, two inhumations, and the use of cereal-drying kilns. Two inhumations were located c. 5m W of Structure 8, at the summit of the ridge. The remains were badly truncated, but both were supine and extended W-E with the head at W. The sex and age at death could not be determined but both were adults, and a sample of bone from one provided a C14 date of 434-598 cal. AD (UBA 12933). One fairly large perforated stone bead was recovered from one of the burials which could be a match for the smaller stone bead from the rectangular enclosure. (Walsh 2011, vol. 1, 141-2; 2012, 308-09)

True location ITM (675651, 774107)

See the attached plans adapted from Walsh 2011 (figs 6, 7, 25)
ME017-087_1 Site plan;
ME017-087_2 Contour plan;
ME017-087_7 Location;
ME017-087020- Plan;

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 22 March 2022

References

Walsh, F. 2012 23. Iron Age sanctuary enclosure, boundary ditch and kilns at Kilmainham, Co. Meath. in Corlett, C. and M. Potterton (eds) Life and Death in Iron Age Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations. 23, 303-12. Dublin, Wordwell

Walsh, F. 2011 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 4, Navan to Kells and Kells Bypass. Final Report on Kilmainham 1C, Co. Meath. Licence: E003140. Unpublished report, 2 vols, Irish Archaeological Consultancy