Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Alexander Reid, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Alexander Reid
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64506, -6.65002
- SMR number
- ME025-096005-
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
In the SE quadrant of the rath was the slot-trench of a small circular hut-site (int. diam. 2.7m) surviving as arcs at NW and SE with a terminal at the N end of the SE section where the entrance probably was. A later burial was in its centre and a NE-SW gully in the interior probably relates to the entrance of the rath at SE. Three truncated kilns were close to the centre of the rath but probably relate to Phase 4, as might the hut-site. (McGlade 2017, vol. 1, 31-2)
See the attached plan from McGlade (2017, vol. 1, P 44) _01 location:
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 April, 2023
McGlade, S. 2017 Preliminary Excavation Report, Site D, Alexander Reid, Navan. Licence: 16E0449. Unpublished report, 2 vols Archaeology Plan
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.