Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Fletcherstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fletcherstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73839, -6.74357
- SMR number
- ME018-001001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · 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
In 2004 a mound and cross base (ME018-001----) were disturbed and human remains uncovered. These represented at least a middle-aged male and dated to AD 1486-1650 (King 2010).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 24 February 2010
References
King, H. 2010 'More questions than answers:a damaged cross base and a disarticulated burial' in Mary Davies, Una MacConville and gabriel Cooney(eds.) A Grand Gallimaufry: Collected in honour of Nick Maxwell, 146-51.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.