Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Townparks North, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks North
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Coordinates
- 53.55861, -6.79102
- SMR number
- ME036-048036-
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
Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope with a WNW-ESE section of the River Boyne c. 250m to the S. A church may have been founded by St Patrick at what later became St Patrck’s parish church (ME036-048012-) in Trim. There is no physical evidence of this but a section recorded in archaeological monitoring (96E0175) cut through what was probably an E-W fosse or ditch (Wth c. 5m; D 1.1m) under Loman St just W of the graveyard (ME036-048051-). It had two clay fills but produced no artefacts (Meenan 1996, 6; 1997), and raises the tantalizing possibility that it is an a-ceramic and pre Anglo-Norman feature.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 February, 2015
References
Meenan, R. 1996 Archaeological monitoring of excacavations for Trim Water and Sewerage Scheme. Licence No. 96E0175. Unpublished report. Author.
Meenan, R. 1997 Trim. Urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1996 : summary account of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 89, No. 315. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.