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Burial ground

Grange (Navan Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842) covering the location of Burial ground, Grange, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Grange (Navan Lower By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.67412, -6.78154
SMR number
ME024-034003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · 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 N end of a NW-SE ridge (L c. 300m) and at its highest point. Archaeological testing (04E0925) by J. Roynane (2005) at Testing Area 2 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified archaeological material (excavations.ie 2004:1245) that was excavated (E003124) by A. Kelly (2011) as Grange 2 in late June/July 2006 (excavations.ie 2007:1321) when two Neolithic pits, a small burial ground, and evidence of metalworking were recorded in an area of just over 800 square metres. Eight grave-cuts, each containing a single extended supine W-E inhumation with the head at W, were arranged in a limited area (dims c. 6m c. c. 7m) without intercutting. The two best preserved graves, a probable young adult male with some stone lining the grave and an adult female with a child, also have stones marking the heads of the graves. Two other graves have some stone-lining. The other skeletal remains were very fragmentary representing two adults and two adolescents, while one grave only provided tooth enamel and one produced no evidence of a burial although one would have been present. Samples of bone from the female and the male returned C14 dates of 431-571 cal. AD (UBA 13957) and 424-568 cal. AD (UBA 13958) respectively. This is supported by a determination of 432-591 cal. AD (UBA 12076) from a carbonized hazelnut shell from one of the less complete burials. There was a single posthole just W of the burials and another c. 3.5m to the E and these may have provided limits to the burial ground. (Kelly 2011, 8-10)

See the attached site-plan and a group of the burials from Kelly (2011, figs 6, 8)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 March 2022

References

Kelly, A. 2011 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 4, Navan to Kells and Kells Bypass. Final Report on Grange 2, Co. Meath. Licence: E003124. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Roynane, J. 2005 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 4, Navan - Kells and Kells Bypass. Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 2 in Grange, County Meath. Licence: 04E0925. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

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

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