Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Graney West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graney West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.90434, -6.79857
- SMR number
- KD040-011----
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Shown on 5 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
Cemetery of three graves excavated in 1953. (1) A cremation in a cist with two bone pendants, (2) a crouched inhumation of an adult in pit with a food vessel sherds, (3) the crouched inhumations of two adult males in a cist with two bowl food vessels (Waddell 1970, 119).
Date of upload: 8 September 2016
References
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.