Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Loughsallagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughsallagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41801, -6.45027
- SMR number
- ME051-031----
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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 on a fairly level landscape. A gradiometer survey (17R0229) by Target Archaeological Geophysics of an extensive development area of c. 75 ha in the townlands of Loughsallagh, Portan, and Gunnocks, identified numerous anomalies of potential archaeological interest. Targeted archaeological testing (18E0013) by T. Coughlan in 2018 and M. Piera (19E0211) in 2019 was able to demonstrate that many of these were of fairly modern agricultural origin. However, sixteen locations were set aside for further investigation, which was undertaken by J. Whitaker under the licence (18E0013) between the beginning of April and the end of July 2019, and all but four of these proved to be of archaeological interest.
Twelve pits (dims 0.77m x 0.6m; D 0.07m to 1.96m x 1.38m; D 0.2m) in a concentrated area (dims 10m x 10m) were filled with single fills of grey-black silty or sandy clays, and five of the pits were covered by a spread of grey silty clay (dims 8m x 5m; max. T 0.1m). One of the largest pits (dims 1.94m x 1.5m; D 1m) had fills of a black silty clay over a grey sandy clay, and there were four stake-holes in its base. No charcoal flecking was noted and no artefacts were recovered, apart from a small quantity of animal bone. Two shallow E-W linear cuts just N of the pits are probably furrows. (Whitaker 2020, 21-5, Site 7)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 November 2021
References
Coughlan, T. 2018 Archaeological Assessment at Clonee Phase 2, Loughsallagh, Portan & Gunnocks, Co. Meath. Licence: 18E0013. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy
Whitaker, J. 2020 Preliminary Report on Archaeological Excavations at CLN 5/6 Clonee, Loughsallagh, Portan and Gunnocks, County Meath. Licence: 18E0013. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy
Piera, M. 2019 Final Report on Archaeological Assessment at CLN 5/6 Clonee, Loughsallagh, Portan & Gunnocks, Co. Meath. Licence: 19E0211. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy
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