Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Scurlockstown (deece Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scurlockstown (deece Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54904, -6.74300
- SMR number
- ME037-011003-
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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 gentle W-facing slope, and located c. 100m SW of the site of the tower house (ME037-011----). Archaeological testing and excavation (01E0316) uncovered the foundations of a rectangular building (int. dims 5.6m NW-SE; 3m NE-SW) defined by the fragmentary outer face of a wall and a slightly sunken clay floor, oxidized in places. There may have been a porch at NW, and there were three areas of distinctive cobbling outside to the SW, W and NW. A SE-NW ditch or open drain (max. Wth 2m; max. D 0.5m) ran past the NE wall. Sherds of seventeenth and eighteenth century pottery, clay pipe stems, and residual medieval sherds were recovered from the thin topsoil. The structure is preserved beneath a white geotextile and a covering of topsoil. (Hayden 2003, 11, 12)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
References
Hayden, A. 2003 Additional Test Trenching and Test Excavation at Scurlockstown, Co. Meath. Licence No. 01E0316 extension. Unpublished report, Alan Hayden Archaeological Projects
Nearby in the register
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Stableunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.