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Field boundary

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field boundary, Grange, 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
Grange (Navan Lower By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.67332, -6.77925
SMR number
ME024-035003-

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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

Two parallel NE-SW ditches (Wth 0.5m; D 0.18m: Wth 0.55m; D 0.24m) cross the excavated area (L 67.4m plus) about 2.7-5m apart and extend beyond it at either end. A third ditch (Wth 0.55m; D 0.3m) extends from one of them to the SE (L 26.5m). The parallel ditches may have been on either side of a field bank. No diagnostic artefacts were recovered from any of them but they were cut by a modern NNE-SSW ditch and one of them was cut by a figure-of-eight kiln, indicating a pre-medieval date. Analysis of the charcoal recorded small quantities of hazel, ash and a pomaceous fruitwood, and a sample of the latter provided a C14 date of 1090-840 cal. BC (SUREC 29329), placing the features in the Late Bronze Age. (Kelly 2010, 28-29)

See the attached site plan adapted from Kelly (2011, fig. 6)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 March 2022

References

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 Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Kelly, A. 2010 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 4, Navan to Kells and Kells Bypass. Final Report on Archaeological Excavation of Grange 3, Co. Meath. Licence: E003123. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Nearby in the register

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

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