Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Urn burial
Annaghkeen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaghkeen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- GA055-010----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered during quarrying 'about 1909 1/4 three or four hundred yards' [c. 275-365m] S of a tumulus (GA055-006----). An 'Urn' [H c. 0. 3m] was reported to have been found just below ground level. It had presumably been placed in a pit, mouth upwards, as it is recorded to have contained cremated bone and been covered by a large flat stone (Costello 1924a, 118; Waddell 1975, 14; 1990, 90).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010