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
- 53.49125, -6.03136
- SMR number
- DU009-001009-
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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
Human remains exposed by coastal erosion in 1991 on the W side of Lambay Island, c. 110m to the NW of the chapel. These consisted of the partial remains of a single extended skeleton, oriented NW/SE with the head to the NW (O'Floinn, 1992, 16). In the area of the lower stomach a large peice of mortar and many snail sheels were found. Bone samples produced a calibrated date of 1470-1665. The discovery of other human bone at the site indicates that this was probably a cemetery (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 238-247).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 14 February 2013
References
Ó Floinn, R. 1992a A bog body from Derrymaquirk and other related finds from county Roscommon. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 4, 71-2.
Ó Floinn, R. 1992b Lambay Island: Burial. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1991: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 16. Bray. Wordwell.
Cahill, M. 2011 6.45 Great Island, Co. Wexford, E1185. in Cahill, M and Sikora, M. (eds) Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. 2 vols. Vol. 2, 432-4. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Sikora, M. and Cahill, M. 2011 Inventory of uninvestigated reports of human remains. In M. Cahill and M. Sikora (eds.), Breaking ground, finding graves – reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, vol. 2, 447-526.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 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.