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Burial

Newtown (Navan Upper By.),Peterstown (Navan Upper By., Newtownclonbun Par.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newtown (Navan Upper By.),Peterstown (Navan Upper By., Newtownclonbun Par.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.56118, -6.76933
SMR number
ME036-054----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight gravel ridge. Archaeological testing (97E0389) of a road improvement scheme uncovered the inhumed remains of three males and one female aligned W-E. One burial produced a C14 date of 1694 +-37 BP (Cal. AD 414-532). Further testing during 1998 recovered another inhumation 75m to the SE. A single male, aged 17-25, was lying supine W-E in a grave-cut (dis 1.38m E-W; 0.52m N-S; D 0.28-0.36m) c. 1m below present ground level. It produced a C14 date of 446+-46 (Cal. AD 1425-1461) demonstrating that it was unconnected with the earlier burials (Murphy 1998, 2000). Further testing (04E0622) by D. Noonan c. 100m to the NE at the nearest point produced no related material (excavatioins.ie 2004:1352), and testing (18E0631) by I. Russell c. 40m S of the main concentration produced no further inhumations (excavations.ie 2018:721).
Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 22 October, 2018
Amended: 29 January 2021, 29 April 2021

References

Murphy, D. 1998 Peterstown, Trim: Early Christian/medieval cemetery. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, P 143, No. 431. Bray, Wordwell

Murphy, D. 2000 Peterstown, Trim: Possible Early Christian cemetery. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, P 169, No. 531. Bray, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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