Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Rathmolyon, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmolyon
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48693, -6.80330
- SMR number
- ME042-020003-
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
Archaeological monitoring and excavation (07E0922) by D. Shine of a trench for a water pipe W of the graveyard (ME042-020001-) of Rathmolyon church identified a metal-working: south of the plots of the settlement (excavations.ie 2008:960, 961). The cuts of three bowl furnaces (dims 0.38-0.4m; D 0.12-0.14) set into the subsoil were recorded. What is probably a quenching gully (dims 1.6m x 1.1m D 0.2m) and a post-hole were nearby. One of the furnaces returned a C14 date of 770-900 cal. AD but the other features are thought to be late medieval. (Shine 2009, 14, 20-2)
Further archaeological testing (21E0315) by A. O’Connell just to the SW at ITM produced no relat3ed archaeological material (excavations.ie 2021:262).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 April, 2021
Amended: 28 April, 2023
References
Shine, D. 2009a Full and Final Report on Archaeological Monitoring at Rathmolyon, Co. Meath… Licence: 07E0922. Unpublished report, CRDS
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.