- Anneville or Clonard Old, Co. Meath, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: Anneville or Clonard Old, Co. Meath

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR ME048-018 Licence number:

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Site type: Graves of indeterminate date

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ITM: E 665749m, N 745647m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.456780, -7.010000

In August 1964 portions of an inhumation burial were exposed following the erosion of a sandhill at Anneville or Clonard Old townland, near Clonard, Co. Meath.196 The site was a roughly circular mound measuring 25m in diameter and 5m high. It was reported to the Gardaí at Longwood, who visited the site and informed the National Museum. The site was investigated by Breandán Ó Ríordáin. The hill was found to have been naturally formed, and the burial was found close to its summit, 0.35m below its present surface. The skull was facing east, and a portion of the neck and upper vertebrae were visible in an articulated position. Further bones were also noticed some distance to the north of the skull. These were excavated and found to be the leg bones of one individual, aligned east/west. Apart from recent erosion, the eastern side of the hill had apparently been exploited for sand some years ago, and it seemed probable that part of the first skeleton had been removed in the course of earlier works. There was no evidence of associated artefacts or grave structure in the vicinity. The human remains were not acquired.

196. Parish of Clonard, barony of Upper Moyfenrath. SMR ME048-018——. IGR 265813 245623.