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Town Parks (Lune By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Town Parks, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 Unpublished excavation, Archaeological Consultancy Services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 Unpublished excavation, Archaeological Consultancy Services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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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