Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Halverstown (kilcullen Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.