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Hut site

Cookstown Great, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Cookstown Great, 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
Cookstown Great
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.70754, -6.85754
SMR number
ME017-089003-

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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

Structure C, located just 5m S of Structure D, is an arc of postholes (diam. c. 4m) defined by seven postholes S-W-N with no evidence of postholes on the E side, but the structure was extremely truncated with only the bases of postholes (D 0.05-0.1m) present. The charcoal from one of the postholes was a mix of alder, ash and cherry with one piece of oak, and a fragment of alder charcoal returned a C14 date of 2023-1886 cal. BC (UBA 11093). There was an internal hearth (dims 1.5m z 1.05m; D 0.07m) with an oxidized base, and a sample of alder charcoal from this provided a C14 date of 2109-1892 cal. BC (UBA 11094). (McLoughlin 2010, 11-12)

See the attached plans adapted from McLoughlin 2010 (figs 5, 11)
ME017-089_1 Location;
ME017-089003-_ 1 plan;

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 23 March 2022

References

McLoughlin, G. 2010 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 4, Navan to Kells and Kells Bypass. Final Report on Cookstown Great 3, Co. Meath. Licence: E003139. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

McLoughlin, G. 2010 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 4, Navan to Kells and Kells Bypass. Final Report on Town Parks 1, Co. Meath. Licence: E003147. 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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