2025:580 - Tubberfin, Donore, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: Tubberfin, Donore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 25E0402
Author: Carmel Duffy
Author/Organisation Address: Umberstown Great, Summerhill,Co. Meath
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 704733m, N 773250m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.698438, -6.413963
The site is located c.600m north of the village of Donore, in an area very rich in archaeological sites and Recorded Monuments. The site lies c. 300m east of the Bend of the Boyne, to the west of the river the World Heritage Site of Bru na Boinne is located, which includes the Neolithic Passage Graves of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, and numerous other Recorded Monuments from the neolithic and subsequent eras of the past. About 2.5km to the north of the site is “ The Curly Hole” and the greater part of the Battle of the Boyne site (1690). The town of Drogheda to the northeast is the locus of many important archaeological and historical sites.
The site is situated on a laneway off a minor road. At the western end of the laneway, there is a quarry. Several fulachta fiadh have been identified in the course of work in the quarry, as follows:
ME020-029001- : Burnt mound : SHEEPHOUSE
ME020-029002- : Fulacht fia : SHEEPHOUSE
ME020-029003- : Fulacht fia : SHEEPHOUSE
Archaeological monitoring of the excavation of a foundation for an extension to a modern house was carried out. The foundation measured 8.5m east-west x 5.5m. The trench was c. 0.9m wide, and was excavated by mechanical digger to a general depth of 0.8m. No archaeology found.