2014:393 - KILMESSAN, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: KILMESSAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 014E0137
Author: David Sweetman
Author/Organisation Address: Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
Site type: Church and Enclosure
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 688942m, N 757337m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.558402, -6.657563
Test trenches opened close to the modern wall of the churchyard and burial ground revealed the medieval enclosing ditch of the early ecclesiastical site. Other than a small amount of human bone fragments nothing else of archaeological interest was noted.