Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Littleconnell, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Littleconnell
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18958, -6.77635
- SMR number
- KD023-110----
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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 2004, portion of a pottery vessel containing fragments of cremated bone was found during a programme of unlicensed monitoring of topsoil-stripping at the Wyeth Medica Ireland facility at Littleconnell. The feature was archaeologically excavated under licence (Licence no. 04E1555 www.excavations.ie) with the assistance of a conservator and appears to represent the remains of a Bronze Age cremation burial that was contained within a small upright pottery vessel. The vessel was initially removed from the site in a stabilised earthen block and later excavated in controlled laboratory conditions. (Excavations 2004, 2007, No. 847, p.203)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.