County: Meath Site name: Scurlockstown, Co. Meath
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR ME037-040ME037-009-012 Licence number: —
Author: —
Site type: Graves of indeterminate date
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 683259m, N 756483m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.551666, -6.743530
In June 1935 the Museum received a report from Revd Professor William Moran, Maynooth College,216 that two ‘Scandinavian’ burials were visible on the banks of the River Boyne, two miles south of Trim at Scurlockstown.217 Professor Moran thought that one of the sites was a mass grave as a result of a battle and that the other was a possible ship burial, but he did not describe the morphology of the site. The burials were said to be located on either side of a stream that runs between the graveyard on its western side and the church on its eastern side, very close to the Boyne. The site was not investigated.
216. Professor Moran was the first curator of the Museum of Ecclesiology at Maynooth College. His opinion on the burials may have been influenced by the discoveries of Viking burials in Dublin in the early 1930s.
217. Parish of Scurlockstown, barony of Lower Deece. SMR ME037-040——. IGR 283327 256462. A number of monuments are recorded in this townland, including a possible motte, church, tower-house and earthwork site (ME037-009-012).
