- Mulphedder, Co. Meath, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: Mulphedder, Co. Meath

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR (ME047-017 Licence number:

Author:

Site type: Graves of indeterminate date

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ITM: E 665546m, N 744836m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.449520, -7.013224

In October 1951 human remains were discovered during roadworks at Mulphedder, Clonard, Co. Meath.212 Two inhumation burials were discovered at a depth of c. 0.3m below ground level. According to the report, they lay in a shallow ditch on compact subsoil. Both were extended in a supine position, one with the head to the north and the underlying burial with the head to the west. Both lay with the arms by the sides. According to Mr William Maye, who reported on the find, one of the bodies was considerably larger than the other. No associated artefacts or stones were found in the vicinity of the burials. The remains were not acquired and the site was not investigated.

212 Parish of Clonard, barony of Upper Moyfenrath. It is presumed that these burials are part of a burial ground marked on the SMR (ME047-017——; IGR 265610 244812).