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Excavation - miscellaneous

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, 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
Coordinates
53.62093, -6.91992
SMR number
ME029-023011-

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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

Excavation (01E0883) within the town wall of Athboy has produced some evidence of medieval occupation in six intercutting medieval and post-medieval pits (max. diam. 4m; max. D 1.3m) inside the robber trench (Wth of top 1.45-2.2.5m; D 0.9-1.5m) on the WNW-ESE line of the town wall (L 50m plus). The robbed wall would have cut across the burgage plots depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. (Danaher 2001; 2003; O’Hara 2002; 2004)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28 February 2019

References

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

O'Hara, R. 2002 Archaeological Testing 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 Unpublished excavation, Archaeological Consultancy Services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

Danaher, E. 2001 Archaeological excavation at Townparks, Athboy, Co. Meath. Licence No. 01E0883 ext. Unpublished excavation, Archaeological Consultancy Services

Nearby in the register

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

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