Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Killegland, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killegland
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50674, -6.40551
- SMR number
- ME045-004005-
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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 in a fairly level landscape and c. 40m SW of Killegland graveyard (ME045-004001-). Archaeological testing (05E1321) by S. Halliday in advance of a housing development identified numerous archaeological features (excavations.ie 2006:1496). The area was further investigated (06E0871) by J. Kavanagh (excavations.ie 2006:1499) who sampled some of the features including this souterrain at the SW angle of the ecclesiastical enclosure (ME045-004004-). It is sitting neatly inside the angle where the fosse of the enclosure, approaching from the S changes direction from ESE-WNW to SSW-NNE. The souterrain consists of a passage (L c. 9.3m; Wth 0.76-1m) aligned N-S which had a circular beehive chamber (int. diam. 3.2m) at the S end. Only the basal courses of the passage (max. H 0.68m) and chamber (max. H 1.32m) survived. It is now preserved in the fallow area (radius c. 30m) around the graveyard. (Halliday 2007, 18-19)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 January 2022
References
Halliday, S. 2007 Archaeological Monitoring Report. Proposed Residential Development, Killegland, Ashbourne, Co. Meath. Licence: 05E1321. Unpublished report, Arch-Tech
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.