Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Aghfarrell, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghfarrell
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU024-048001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the W-facing slope of Ballinacorney Hill. The cist was of short trapezoidal shape (L 1.05m; Wth 0.66m; D 0.51m). All the structural stones were of granite. It contained a crouched inhumation of an adult male who was placed on its right side. A bowl food vessel had been placed just behind the body in the corner of the cist. Two pit burials (DU024-048002-) were also found in the sandpit during quarrying in 1938 (Raftery 1938, 300-303; Waddell 1970, 115; Waddell 1990, 80). Not precisely located.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018
References
Raftery, J. 1938 The Bronze Age burials at Aghfarrell, Co. Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 300-304.
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.