TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Linkardstown burial

Lisduggan North, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Linkardstown burial, Lisduggan North, County Cork, 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
Lisduggan North
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.17726, -8.83034
SMR number
CO023-293----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Found during preparation of cliff face for quarry blasting in May 1946. Skeletal remains of two adults were recovered with three sherds of a Drimnagh Style bowl; a fourth undecorated sherd may have come from a second pot (pers. comm. M. Cahill). Although details of the burial are poorly documented, Brindley and Lanting (1989-90, 3) suggest that this may be an 'orthodox burial of Linkardstown Type.' Radiocarbon determination of 4585±80BP (OxA-2681) obtained for skeletal remains (ibid., 2).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 1, 12-17.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 15 August 2012

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Linkardstown burial in Cork All County Cork records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map