Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildare
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15345, -6.91591
- SMR number
- KD022-115----
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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
In 2005, archaeological excavation (Licence no. 04E0233 ext.) in advance of a large commercial development in 'Field 1' at Grey Abbey (KD022-029006-) uncovered the cremation burial of a juvenile and an associated marker post. This burial deposit was sealed with a 0.1m-thick capping layer of brown clay mottled with orange redeposited subsoil. A 2 sigma calibrated 14C date of 1142–1310 BC was obtained from the charcoal of the burial deposit. A number of additional posts and immediately to the E were also excavated and may also be of prehistoric date. (Dennehy E. 2008, No. 757, 184-5)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 23 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.