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
- 53.55696, -6.79076
- SMR number
- ME036-048048-
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 on a S-facing slope and on the NW side of Main Street. An archaeological rescue excavation and watching brief (E000404) in 1987 uncovered evidence of a medieval building (ME036-048046-) and other features. In the course of the watching brief a builder’s trench cut a large medieval pit (dims c. 3.5m x 1.5m plus; D 1.5m plus) with steeply sloping sides at the NW edge of the development site. The pit was filled with yellow clays leavened with dark organic layers and it cut through stratified medieval layers which were beneath a substantial NE-SW wall (ME036-048050-). (Walsh 1990-91, 45)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 July, 2019
References
Walsh, C. 1990-91 An excavation at the library site, High Street, Trim. Ríocht na Midhe, vol. 8, No. 3, 41-67.
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