Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Ballybar Lower, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybar Lower
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78850, -6.91955
- SMR number
- CW012-160----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavated in advance of construction of the N9/N10 Kilcullen-Waterford Road (Excavation Licence number E2621), one of two cremation pits (see also CW012-159----). A sub-circular shaped pit (L 0.56m; Wth 0.48m; max D 0.80m) containing charcoal, fragments of cattle teeth and a large quantity of burnt bone mostly from the cranium of one individual. A calibrated radiocarbon date of 1511-1325 BC was obtained from the bone. (Hanbridge R. and Hackett L. 2009, 4)
Reference:
Hanbridge R. and Hackett L. (2009) N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. Archaeological Services Contract No. 4 - Resolution, Prumpelstown to Powerstown. Final Report on archaeological investigations at site E2621, in the townland of Ballybar Lower, Co. Carlow. Unpublished report, Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd., Cork
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 10 November 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.