Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Lambay Island, County Dublin, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.