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Excavation - miscellaneous

Dunboyne, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Dunboyne, 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
Dunboyne
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.42020, -6.47772
SMR number
ME050-021010-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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

Located within the likely extent of the medieval settlement of Dunboyne. Archaeological testing (14E0126) by R. Meenan on the SW side of the NW-SE Summerhill Road (excavations.ie 2014: 4678) uncovered and sampled part of an ENE-WSW ditch (Wth of top 1.1m; D 0.8m) that was filled with a soft grey silty clay that had occasional flecks of charcoal and lumps of brown boulder clay. It produced eight sherds of Dublin-type ware and one of Leinster cooking ware, and a date in the thirteenth century is likely for what may have been a property boundary. (Meenan 2014)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 29 October 2021

References

Meenan, R. 2014 Report on excavation of feature at Couthill, Dunboyne, Co. Meath. Licence: 14E0126. Unpublished report, Author

Nearby in the register

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

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