Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Dunboyne, County Meath, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (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 Unpublished report, Author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
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.