Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Coolnakisha, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnakisha
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75514, -6.98906
- SMR number
- CW012-171----
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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)
- 1811 · 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
Excavated in advance of construction of the N9/N10 Kilcullen-Waterford Road (Excavation Licence number E3767). Eighteen pits were discovered, five of which contained occasional fragments of burnt bone and may have represented token cremation pits.
(O' Carroll E. 2010, 21)
Reference:
O' Carroll E. (2010) 'AR140, Coolnakisha possible cremation pits' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 21 (103). Bray. Wordwell
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 10 November 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.