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Situated at the junction of the N-S R150 Mornington to Bettystown road and the W-E L5614 road from Colp. It is also on a knoll which is on a general slope down to the E. Human remains were noted in a pipe-trench in 1964 and again in September 2006 (Reilly 2006; Murphy 2006) when road resurfacing and re-alignment work by Meath County Council excavated trenches which local archaeologist Kieran Campbell was able to examine. In a N-facing section (L c. 3.5m; H c. 0.5m) the old tarmac and its foundation (T c. 0.15m) covered a light brown stony soil that was flecked with fragments of human bone, and a human skull was at the base of the section. However, it is thought that the bones had been redeposited and were not in their original position.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 September 2021
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