Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Anneville Or Clonard Old, County Meath, Ireland
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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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
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.