Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Greenhills, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenhills
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Urn burials (site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.31526, -6.33325
- SMR number
- DU022-002----
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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
These burials were first uncovered in 1892 during the quarrying of a sand and gravel ridge (NMI 1892:48). The remains comprised a burial with a bowl food vessel and an uncontexted vase food vessel. In 1898 there were further discoveries of two cists with two pit burials and two other possible pit burials (Plunkett 1898-190, 388). One contained an urn, the other a food vessel/urn (Waddell 1970, 116; 1990, 83). There is a development on the site.
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
References
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Plunkett, Col. LT.G.T. 1898-1900 On a cist and urns found at Greenhills Tallaght, Co. Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 21, 338-47.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Linkardstown burialunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.