Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Coolgrange (Crannagh By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolgrange (Crannagh By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67087, -7.27176
- SMR number
- KK019-112----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In gravel on a low E–W ridge. The incomplete upper half of the skeleton of an adult female in an unlined grave aligned E-W was found in 1988 during quarrying. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 351-4)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 11 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.