Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Kilkeelan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkeelan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63816, -6.95890
- SMR number
- ME023-018----
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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
Situated on narrow E-W esker ridge with a small NW-SE stream c. 100m to the SW. Quarrying in 1983 exposed inhumed human remains c. 0.5m below the surface. About 10 individuals could be represented. The burials displayed no consistent orientation. Works stopped once the burial ground was identified.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.