Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Killaree, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaree
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69797, -7.32460
- SMR number
- KK014-048----
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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
Listed as 'Cemetery site' in the RMP (1996). A number of extended inhumations in unlined graves discovered in gravel debris during quarrying in 1971. The burials were in rows and were oriented E-W. The site was extremely disturbed and the exact number of burials was unclear. Finds included an iron knife and a decorated whetstone. A sample of human remains was dated to 1445+/- 40 BP or AD550-657. Black Castle (KK014-049----) lies c. 300m to the S and a church (KK014-050003-) and ecclesiastical enclosure (KK014-050001-) are c. 300m to the NE. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 70-72).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 6 February 2013
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.