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Excavation - miscellaneous

Ferganstown And Ballymacon, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Ferganstown And Ballymacon, 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
Ferganstown And Ballymacon
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.66670, -6.65250
SMR number
ME025-058002-

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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

Located at the W edge of a fairly level landscape and at the crest of a steep slope down (H c. 12m) to the flood-plain of a S-N section of the River Boyne. Hanley (1999, 12-13) in excavation (99E0178) trenches (Wth 1.5m) around the entrance to the souterrain identified furrows (Wth 0.24-00.48m; D 0.12m: Wth 0.88-1.06m; D 0.3m) beneath the surface, but some ditches (Wth 0.65m; D 0.44m) were also present, running NE-SW. However, none could be regarded as a defensive feature that might have enclosed the souterrain. One excavation trench exposed the base of a field bank associated with modern ceramics. (Hanley 1999, 13-16)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 30 March 2023

Hanley, K. 1999 A stratigraphic report on the limited excavation & testing of part of an exposed souterrain, in the townland of Ferganstown and Ballymacon, Navan, Co. Meath. Licence: 99E0178. Unpublished report, Author

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

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