Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Donacarney Great,donacarney Little, County Meath, Ireland
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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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
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
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.