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Burial

Halverstown (Kilcullen ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Halverstown, 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
Halverstown (Kilcullen ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.09570, -6.76957
SMR number
KD028-054----

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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

Three crouched inhumation burials were found in a gravel ridge: (1) a pit containing the contracted inhumation of a middle-aged adult female; (2) the crouched inhumation of a young adult male, facing E, accompanied by a bowl food vessel placed upright behind the skull, and (3) the crouched inhumation of an adult male, facing E, accompanied by an ox femur (Raftery 1940, 57-61). This area has been completely quarried.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 14 May 2013

References

Raftery, J. 1940 Bronze Age burials at Halverstown, Co. Kildare, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 70, 57-61

Nearby in the register

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

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