Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Dunleckny, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunleckny
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- SMR number
- CW016-098----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
According to Wilde, 'rude stone coffin… of six pieces freestone granite', containing pygmy cup and 'much larger and ruder urn, filled with human bones' discovered in 1847 during railway construction at 'Knocknacoura' (PRIA 1857, 179). Pygmy cup survives.
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