Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Astagob (castleknock By., Castleknock Ed), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Astagob (castleknock By., Castleknock Ed)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36595, -6.40299
- SMR number
- DU017-074----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A flat cemetery was discovered in 1959 with evidence for 7 -8 human skeletons running E-W and N-S including a possible infant. One of the burials may have been slab-lined, another in a crouched position. These were unaccompanied remains (NMI Topographical files, Cahill & Sikora 2011, 467). Now located within playing pitches which have been lowered and levelled relative to the surrounding topography. The skeletons were buried in the graveyard at Mulhuddart Church of Ireland.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 29 January 2015
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland. 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. Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. Two Volumes. Dublin, Wordwell Ltd. In association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
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- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.