County: Meath Site name: FERGANSTOWN/BALLYMACKON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E602 ext.
Author: Clare Mullins
Site type: Cist
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 688153m, N 768370m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.657657, -6.666347
Monitoring associated with the Navan Sewerage Augmentation Scheme was carried out in January 1999 in between the test-trenches associated with sites SMR 25:28 and 25:29 (Nos 699 and 686, Excavations 1999), along a short stretch of the Navan to Donore road.
Features identified were a series of cuts into the natural, filled with material that contained charcoal, ash and animal bone. These features extended over a distance of 12m and were directly opposite a previously unidentified archaeological site just inside the roadside field boundary to the north-west. This site was a low earthen bank, roughly square and c. 20m by 20m. SMR 25:28 was a Bronze Age cemetery recorded by Wilde in 1850, but it would appear that the newly identified site is not directly related to this. It is reasonable to assume that the archaeological deposits identified in the trench are related to the low earthen enclosure described above. A sample of charcoal from one of the features produced a radiocarbon date of AD 585–675 (95% probability).
31 Millford, Athgarvan, Co. Kildare
