Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughanstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU026-143----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Test excavation carried out in advance of road-building for the Southern Cross Motorway revealed a low cairn formed of granite stones (L 25m, Wth 12m, H 0.30m). A number of possible concentric arrangements of cairn stones were recorded. Two leaf-shaped arrowheads, a stone axe, a plano-convex knife and hollow-scrapers were found within the cairn material along with fragments of burnt bone and a number of Cordoned urn fragments. Under the cairn a partially slab-lined pit contained a cremated individual of mid-teens in age. There was another sub-rectangular pit in the centre of the cairn. This contained a number of scorched granite stones with fragments of burnt bone and was thought to have been the funeral pyre where boards were placed over the top of the pit and set alight (Seaver & Keeley 2003, 130, 37F).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 22 April 2018.
References
Seaver, M. and Keeley, V. 2003 Laughanstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 129. Bray. Wordwell.