Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Abbeyland South, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyland South
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65642, -6.68776
- SMR number
- ME025-044011-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the S bank of a NW-SE section of the Cavan Blackwater River and c. 120m NW of the site of St Mary’s Augustinian abbey (ME025-024----). Archaeological testing (98E0184) by F. Reilly on the line of a new road (dims c. 110m N-S c. 40m E-W) encountered a modern overburden (D up to 6m) in seven test trenches which covered post-medieval deposits. In trench 6 a cobbled surface (Wth 1.3m) was bounded by a stone kerb at the N side and a slightly later E-W wall (Wth 0.6m) on the other. South of the wall was the NE end of a second wall (Wth 0.6m) that survived largely intact (H 1.35m) beneath the overburden but stopped c. 1.2m short of the E-W wall. The E-W wall is thought to be part of a lane that is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. (Reilly 1998)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 March 2023
Reilly, F. 1998 Archaeological Investigation. Navan Inner Relief Road, Navan, Co. Meath. Licence: 98E0184 Unpublished report, Valerie J. Keeley Archaeological Consultancy
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.