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Cremated remains

Cahermackirilla, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cremated remains, Cahermackirilla, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cahermackirilla
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01986, -9.11208
SMR number
CL009-084031-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

During the first season of a research excavation on a complex of prehistoric monuments, a cremated burial was uncovered on the N side of a cairn (CL009-084010-). It was found between two ‘layers’ of the cairn material. One complete blue glass bead and three fragments of other blue glass beads were found, as well as a clear piece of quartz (Grant 2004, 29, no. 112). Subsequent analysis identified the remains as those of an adult human (ibid., 2006, 553, AD9). (ibid., 1995-31-3)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 3 May 2022

References

Grant, C. 2004 Cahermackirilla. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 29, no. 112. Bray. Wordwell.

Grant, C. 2006 Fanygalvan/Cahermackirilla. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 553. Bray. Wordwell.

Grant, C. 1995. Mapping a Bronze Age Burren landscape. Archaeology Ireland 9, no. 1, 31-3.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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