Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Gaulstown (duleek Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gaulstown (duleek Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62449, -6.46835
- SMR number
- ME032-076----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In July 1938 three human skeletons were discovered in a sandpit near Balrath. Two extended burials accompanied by a boar's tusk and a cremation accompanied by a bowl (Cahill & Sikora 2011, vol 1, 357-359).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 28 February 2013
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.