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Hut site

Athlumney, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Athlumney, 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
Athlumney
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.64344, -6.66475
SMR number
ME025-079002-

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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 phases of Early Medieval activity are recorded in the area of the rectilinear enclosure. Structure 2 is a circular hut-site (int. diam. c. 5m) defined by a curving slot-trench (L 7.25m; Wth 0.25-0.5m; max. D 0.18m), most of which is within the excavated area. One post-hole was inside a wide entrance gap (Wth 2.1m) at SSE. Structure 1 was located just S of Structure 2 and is largely outside the excavated area to the SW but is thought to be later than Structure 2. It was represented by the arcs of slot-trenches of a circular hut-site (diam. c. 6m) with a wide entrance (Wth c. 2.3m) at NE, which is adjacent to the entrance to Structure 2. The entrance has a porch wall extending outwards (L 2.5m) on the E side. A sample from the S curving slot-trench provided a C14 date of Cal. AD 551-643 (UBA-8092), making the hut-sites contemporary with the burial ground (ME025-078----), c. 80m to the WSW.

See the attached plans from Hession (_01, _02) (2009, figs 5, 6) and McQuade (_03) (2007, fig. 5)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 31 March 2023

Hession, J. 2009 Final Archaeological Report for the multiphase archaeological landscape preserved in situ at IDA Business and Technology Park, Dublin, Rd., Navan, Co. Meath. Licence: 07E0892. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen & Co.
McQuade, M. 2007 Archaeological Monitoring and Excavation, Athlumney, Co. Meath. Licence: 97E0322ext. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen & Co.

Nearby in the register

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

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