What is recorded here

Knock-a-Raymon hides small cists and buried urns on high ground above the river, though no one now points to the exact spot. Men dug there in 1999 and 2020, found nothing, and walked away. The dead may still be waiting beneath the grass, patient as water, refusing to be named or measured.

Sir William Wilde (1849, 163) records the discovery of several sepulchral urns in small cists at a place called Knock-a-Raymon. Its exact location is not known but it was further down the river than the flax mill that is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and it is likely to be on the high ground overlooking the river. Archaeological testing (99E0010) in the vicinity of this location by J. Kiely produced no related material (excavations.ie 1999: 699), and further testing (20E0493) by Donald Murphy had a similar result (excavations.ie 2020:222). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 July 2007 Revised: 29 March 2023 Wilde, W. R. W. 1849 (reprinted 1978) The Beauties of the Boyne and its tributary, the Blackwater. McGlashan, Dublin

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