Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Castleblunden, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleblunden
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.63595, -7.30261
- SMR number
- KK019-107----
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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 a flat plain stretching E of the Slieve Ardagh Hills to Kilkenny City (4km to the NE) and the Nore valley, 38m S of the source of the Stony Stream. Uncovered during archaeological monitoring (licence no. 99E0756) of a Bord Gáis Éireann gas pipeline development (Stevens 2000, 139). A single cremation pit was found cut into the underlying yellow, glacial boulder clay (ibid.). It was a small, partially truncated, circular pit (diam. 0.5m; D 0.1m), with a concave profile (ibid.). The pit contained a uniform charcoal-rich fill with occasional pebbles and small stones, with 40% of the deposit composed of crushed cremated human bone, measuring 5-20mm in diameter, distributed throughout the fill but with concentrations to the middle and sides (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 October 2020
References
Stevens, P. 2000 430 Castleblunden: flat cremation pit. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 139. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.