Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Rossnaree, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossnaree
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69330, -6.49824
- SMR number
- ME019-059----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Mound destroyed in 1940s when burial of woman found (NMI file). Tradition that it was burial place of Cormac Mac Airt (RMAHS 1965, 184). The grave consisted of a subrectangular pile of stones and the burial lay underneath this. The grave contained the remains of three adult females and an infant. A sample from one of the skeletons yielded a calibrated date of 257-533 AD. Two fragments of a silver earring were found on the right-hand side of the upper body of skeleton 1 (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 113-120).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 12 March 2013
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. 2011 3.94 Kilmurry, Co. Wexford, in M. Cahill and M. Sikora Eds. Breaking ground, finding graves – reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, vol, 1, 586-93. Dublin. Wordwell
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.