County: Meath Site name: CUSHINSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0163
Author: Victor Buckley, Dúchas The Heritage Service
Site type: Burial ground
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 702452m, N 759115m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.571921, -6.453129
Following reports by the Ashbourne Gardaí to Dúchas The Heritage Service, of human remains being found during the construction of a septic tank system at the Snailbox public house, a salvage excavation was carried out on 20–1 March 2000. The presence of disturbed lintel graves suggested that the site dated to the first millennium AD. Although the core of the site had been inadvertently removed, the excavation of the perimeter yielded the remains of at least fourteen individuals including infants, juveniles and adults. The medieval church of the parish is 200m to the north-west, but Early Christian annalistic records document an 8th- and 9th-century monastic site. After the excavation the sewerage works were redirected and completed without further disturbance to the burials.
6 Ely Place Upper, Dublin 2
