Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Ferganstown And Ballymacon, County Meath, Ireland
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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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
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 Unpublished report, Author
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.