Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Johnstown (moyfenrath Lower By., Rathcore Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Johnstown (moyfenrath Lower By., Rathcore Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40830, -6.82765
- SMR number
- ME048-029----
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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
Located in a fairly level landscape. Archaeological monitoring (01E0538) of the centre-line and offsets on the line of the Enfield bypass road identified six potential archaeological areas that were subsequently resolved under different licences (Clutterbuck 2003). In this area excavation (01E0619) recorded four circular pits (diam. 0.9m x 0.9m; D 0.15m to 1.3m x 1.1m; D 0.3m) with flat bases containing silty clay with large amounts of burnt sandstone and charcoal. The ground was cut by NW-SE cultivation furrows, and a chert flake with possible secondary retouching on one side and three flint fragments were amongst the few artefacts recovered. (Clutterbuck 2003; 2009)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
References
Clutterbuck, R. 2009 Enfield Relief Road. Final Report on Archaeological Excavation at Site 2, Johnstown, County Meath, on the Enfield Relief Road. Licence No. 01E0619. Unpublished report, CRDS
Clutterbuck, R. 2003 Johnstown. Pits. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 300-01, No. 975. Bray, Wordwell
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