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
- 53.64523, -6.65054
- SMR number
- ME025-096006-
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
Outside the rath fosse at NW a ditch extended NW which, although not connected with it, is probably a contemporary land boundary. Its fill was cut by one of five arcing slot-trenches that combine to create a circular structure just outside the ambit of the rath and its annexes. This is a double-walled (int. diam. c. 7m; ext. diam. c. 8.5m) hut-site, or possibly a hut-site with a drip-channel, with possible entrances at N and E, but as its slot-trenches are cut in the top fill of the boundary ditch it probably relates to Phase 4 by which time the rath was absorbed into its annexes. (McGlade 2017, vol. 1, 53-55, 88-91)
See the attached plans from McGlade 2017 (P 34, 90) _01 location: _02 plan;
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 Unpublished report, 2 vols Archaeology Plan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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.