Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Keenoge (duleek Upper By., Duleek Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keenoge (duleek Upper By., Duleek Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63686, -6.42530
- SMR number
- ME027-030----
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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
Fourteen burials, six in cists were recovered in 1930s from the cemetery mound (diam. c. 40m, H c. 1.5m). Predominant rite was crouched burials and grave goods amounted to eight Food Vessels, one Cinerary Urn and a jet necklace. (JRSAI 1970, 93, 96; NMI file)
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.