Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Town Parks (lune By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Parks (lune By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62059, -6.92020
- SMR number
- ME029-023010-
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
At the SW angle of Athboy town but outside the line of the town wall. Excavation (01E0883) revealed two masonry walls that were parallel with each other and the robber trench of the town wall. One wall (L 6m; Wth 0.6m) was double-faced with a rubble core while the other was clay-bonded (L 1.9m; Wth 1.25m). The walls are undated and may have been unrelated to each other but are covered by post-medieval garden soils(O’Hara 2002, 2004, 401-02). (Danaher 2001; 2003)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 February 2019
References
Danaher, E. 2001 Archaeological excavation at Townparks, Athboy, Co. Meath. Licence No. 01E0883 ext. Unpublished excavation, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Danaher, E. 2003 Townparks, Athboy: urban. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, No. 935, 285. Bray, Wordwell
O'Hara, R. 2002 Archaeological Testing Athboy, Co. Meath. Licence No. 01E0883 ext. Unpublished excavation, Archaeological Consultancy Services
O'Hara, R. 2004 Townparks, Athboy: urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, No. 1419, 401-03. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.