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 indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55816, -6.79112
- SMR number
- ME036-048037-
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 two shallow pits recorded in archaeological monitoring (96E0175) under Loman St. just SW of the graveyard (ME036-048051-) produced no artefacts (Meenan 1996, 6; 1997).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 16 February, 2015
References
Meenan, R. 1997 Trim. Urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1996 : summary account of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 89, No. 315. Bray, Wordwell
Meenan, R. 1996 Archaeological monitoring of excacavations for Trim Water and Sewerage Scheme. Licence No. 96E0175. Unpublished report. Author.
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