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Burial

Anneville Or Clonard Old, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Anneville Or Clonard Old, 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
Anneville Or Clonard Old
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.44998, -7.01011
SMR number
ME047-015----

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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)
  • 1869 · 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

Eleven burials were uncovered in excavation (E000154) during 1976 by P. D. Sweetman but not removed (exccavations.ie 1976:055). They were just beneath the surface and oriented E-W, and it was thought that they might date from the Famine period (Sweetman 1978, 15). However, a remote sensing survey (Gibson 2011, 77) identified a palaeo-channel running WNW-ESE between this location and the W boundary of the graveyard (ME047-007001-) c. 160m to the E, as well as four areas of high electrical resistivity, suggesting the presence of stone structures. One stone structure (dims c. 15m E-W; c. 7m N-S) is located c. 5m N of these burials, and could prove to be the site of the Augustinian priory of SS Peter and John (ME047-022----) or that of St Mary’s convent (ME047-021----), which are otherwise unlocated.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 21 May 2015

References

Sweetman, P.D. 1978 Excavations of medieval 'field boundaries' at Clonard, Co. Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 108, 10-22.

Gibson, P. J. 2011 Seeing beneath the ground using geophysics at the former ecclesiastical site of Clonard, Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, 22, 69-79.

Nearby in the register

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

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