Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linkardstown burial
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus (site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.32066, -6.34183
- SMR number
- DU018-037----
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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
Excavated in 1938 by Kilbride Jones (1939, 190-220). The site comprised a circular mound (diam.21.5m, H 1.22m). It had a composite make-up comprising a primary mound of decayed sods overlain by a mound of gravel and sand of Mid-Late Bronze age. The primary mound covered a stone-setting and an oval cairn which covered a central cist (L1.30m, Wth 1.20m, H 0.37m) orientated N-S containg a hanging bowl and extended burial. Secondary burials were inserted into the mound. These were cremations accompanied by a Food Vessel. At a later stage in the early Late Bronze Age a mantling mund had been placed over the primary mound obtained from a surrounding ditch. A pit inserted into this contained two burials, orientated East to West. In Walkinstown Park. There are no visible surface remains.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.