Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Calliaghstown (duleek Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Calliaghstown (duleek Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Quarry
- Coordinates
- 53.67700, -6.32703
- SMR number
- ME027-005----
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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007
Cooper (Price 1942, 109) records the discovery of a 'clay urn with elegant beaded rim round it, containing calcinated bones', when a small mound was being destroyed. Half of mound survives (diam. 12m, max H 1.3m).
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.