Burial ground

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a slight rise in an elevated part of a large field. Archaeological monitoring (03E1828) identified human remains in an area (dims c. 6m x c. 6m) which were excavated as site 1 when 31 inhumations were recovered. All but one of the burials were aligned SW-NE in a supine position with the heads at SW and included 8 adult males, 9 adult females, 3 undetermined adults, 3 adolescents, 4 juveniles, and 4 infants including 1 neonate. The graves were regularly spaced in four orderly rows covering a limited area (dims 15m x 12m) with only four instances of interments truncating others. Four of the burials were overlain by the original N-S drive into Teaguestown House, and there were two definite and two possible double interments. The high instance of dental caries suggests a post-medieval date. (Delany 2008; Delany and O'Hara 2009, 3:2, 4:1)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 9 July, 2019

References

Delany, D. 2007 Ifferknock. Burials. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 316, No. 1251. Dublin, Wordwell

Delany, D. 2008 Cemeteries. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 292, No. 1182. Dublin, Wordwell

Delany, D. and O’Hara, B. 2009 Archaeological excavation of two cemeteries at Ifferknock, Trim, County Meath. Licence No. 03E1828. Unpublished report, Dominic Delany and Associates