Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Baronstown West (feighcullen Ed) (detached Portion), County Kildare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.