Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight S and E-facing slope at the S edge of Taghmon town. It is c. 150m NW of the probable site of the original St. Munna’s church (WX041-008003-) and c. 70m W of the probable site of the parish church (WX041-008015-). Archaeological testing and excavation (98E0483) identified three parallel ditch features that were water-logged running NW-SE but perhaps turning SW at their S end (Mullins 2000a). Radiocarbon results and pottery analysis suggests that one of the ditches is 1st to 5th century AD in date while the others are of medieval date (Mullins 200b). Other ditches are connected with the main ditches but they are concentrated in a confined area, although undoubtedly extending outside the development area (Mullins 2002). Away from the ditches a pit (diam. 3m; D 0.6m) containing charcoal and cremated bone and producing a C14 date of AD 660-795 was excavated at the S edge of the development site.

References

Mullins, C. 2000a Main Street, Taghmon. Vicinity of Early Christian and medieval sites. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 217-8, No. 677. Bray, Wordwell

Mullins, C. 2000b Taghmon. Ditch features. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 304-05, No. 888. Bray, Wordwell

Mullins, C. 2002 Main Street, Taghmon. Late Iron Age/Early Christian and medieval. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 358, No. 1069. Bray, Wordwell