2014:393 - Kilmessan, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: Kilmessan

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 014E0137

Author: David Sweetman

Site type: Site of medieval church and enclosure

Period/Dating:

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

David Sweetman, Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath.

Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath