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Burial ground

Lambay Island, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Lambay Island, County Dublin, 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
Lambay Island
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.48934, -6.03488
SMR number
DU009-001003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

In the SW point of Lambay Island excavations in 1995 revealed a multiple grave containing five young adult males and an adolscent dating to c. 1500 AD (Cooney 1996, 25-26). Further investigations in 2002 indicated a second grave. This contained an intact, extended E-W inhumation. A fragment of textile and an iron rivet cap were found adjacent to the lower right limb bones (Cooney 2003, 170-171).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Updated by: Christine Baker

Date of upload: 31 December 2014

References

Cooney, G. 1996 The Point Lambay Island. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1995: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 25-6. Bray. Wordwell.

Cooney, G. 2003a Lambay Island. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 126-8. Bray. Wordwell.

Cooney, G. 2003b The Point, Lambay Island. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 170-71. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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