Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
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
- 53.55945, -6.79057
- SMR number
- ME036-048041-
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. The church founded by St Patrick at Ath Truim may have been on the site of the later medieval parish church (ME036-048012-). A section 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-) showed 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, possibly part of an ecclesiastical enclosure.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 April, 2015
References
Meenan, R. 1996 Archaeological monitoring of excacavations for Trim Water and Sewerage Scheme. Licence No. 96E0175. Unpublished report. Author.
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.