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Burial

Donacarney Great,Donacarney Little, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Donacarney Great, Donacarney Little, 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
Donacarney Great,Donacarney Little
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.71039, -6.27870
SMR number
ME021-040----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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 at the junction of the N-S R150 Mornington to Bettystown road and the W-E L5614 road from Colp. It is also on a knoll which is on a general slope down to the E. Human remains were noted in a pipe-trench in 1964 and again in September 2006 (Reilly 2006; Murphy 2006) when road resurfacing and re-alignment work by Meath County Council excavated trenches which local archaeologist Kieran Campbell was able to examine. In a N-facing section (L c. 3.5m; H c. 0.5m) the old tarmac and its foundation (T c. 0.15m) covered a light brown stony soil that was flecked with fragments of human bone, and a human skull was at the base of the section. However, it is thought that the bones had been redeposited and were not in their original position.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 15 September 2021

References

Reilly, T. 2006 Donacarney works reveal bones of nun. Drogheda Independent, 13/09/2006.

Murphy, A. 2006 Donacarney bones may have belonged to a 500-year-old nun. Drogheda Leader, 13/09/2006

Nearby in the register

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

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