Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Urn burial
Coolnahane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnahane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15341, -8.83845
- SMR number
- CO031-023002-
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, c. 30m ESE of ringfort (CO031-02301-). Discovered in 1975 during mechanical excavation of drainage channel, revealing circular pit (diam. c. 0.85m; D. c. 0.95m) containing an inverted Encrusted Urn; investigated by O'Kelly and Shee (1974, 71-83). Pit described as having near vertical sides and a flat base; central area beneath urn was roughly paved and there was backfill of loose soil and rounded stones around urn (ibid., 73). Urn divided into two parts by applied horizontal rib; area between rib and rim decorated with a 'zig-zag band or fillet' and between shoulder and base by 'roughly scored lines forming a very loose chevron pattern which runs to a slightly splayed foot' (O'Kelly and Shee 1974, 74-5). Cremated remains of single adult and three fragments of a bone pin contained within urn (ibid. 76). (Doody 1986, Cork No. 25; Waddell 1990, 60-1)
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.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.