Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Castleboy (skreen By., Tara Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleboy (skreen By., Tara Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured Dumha na ngiall Neamhnach
- Coordinates
- 53.57959, -6.61160
- SMR number
- ME031-033076-
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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
At least eighteen pit burials recovered in excavation of mound of passage-tomb (ME031-033007-) (PPS 1955, 163-73). One contained a crouched inhumation with a necklace of amber, jet and bronze beads. In other burials the predominant rite was cremation (PPS 1955, 164) and grave goods included six Encrusted Urns (PRIA 1973, 555-8) and several Food Vessels were recovered with crouched burials in passage and chamber of the passage-tomb (PPS 1955, 167)
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.