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Charcoal-making site

Clonee (Dunboyne By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Charcoal-making site, Clonee, 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
Clonee (Dunboyne By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.41564, -6.43591
SMR number
ME051-078001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (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

Excavated (16E0417) by D. Bayley as part of Site 13, this was located on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape amongst features associated with a large Early Bronze Age fulachta fia mound (ME051-078----). A charcoal-making clamp (dims 1.2m x 1m; D 0.14m) amongst the pits at the E edge of the excavation had four fills with oxidise red/orange clays and charcoal, from which a sample of fruitstone charcoal returned a C14 date of 588-655 cal. AD (FTMC-HR36-10), while a sample of hazel charcoal from an isolated pit (dims 0.66m x 0.46m; D 0-09-0.11m) in the same area provided a date of 706-888 (FTMC-HR36-8 ). (Duffy et. al. 2021, 24-5)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 26 April, 2023

Duffy, P., Fairhead, S. & F. Fleeshouven 2021 Final Excavation Report for Sites 3-37, Clonee, Portan, Gunnocks, Co. Meath. Multiple licences, Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Nearby in the register

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

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