Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Westereave, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Westereave
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46393, -6.28402
- SMR number
- DU011-084----
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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
Located within a relatively flat field of tillage with extensive views. Excavations in 1988 during the construction of a gas pipeline revealed a total of 57 burials, 12 of which were placed in slab-lined grave pits. There was no enclosing element around the cemetery. All the burials lay roughly in rows, at a distance of 0.2m or more from each other. A small iron buckle and a fragment of bronze were recovered from the site (Gowen 1988, 18). Subsequent monitoring in 1999 west of the area excavated revealed no further features (Conway 2000, 96).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 09 January 2015
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.