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Burial

Baronstown West (Feighcullen ED) (Detached portion), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Baronstown West (Detached portion), County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Baronstown West (Feighcullen ED) (Detached portion)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.21011, -6.84151
SMR number
KD018-035----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Discovered by turf-cutters in 1953 and subsequently archaeologically excavated. The burial occurred under a layer of small, partially interwoven sticks, at a depth of 1.9m below a neighbouring turf-bank, and consisted of the apparently headless remains of a 25-30 year old adult male wrapped in an inner covering of woollen textile and an outer covering of ox skin. A radio-carbon date of 1725+/-30 BP (GrN - 14758) dates the burial to between 200 and 400 AD. (O'Floinn 1991, 148-50).

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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