Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Granardkill, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Granardkill
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF010-078006-
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The National Monuments Service's description
During the course of excavations in 2002 at the deserted settlement (LF010-078001-) in Granardkille, a stone-lined pit with deposits of cremated bone was discovered. The sides of the pit were lined with upright stones and a large flat paving stone, with smaller stones encircling it, formed the bottom. There were five layers of deposition and all contained some cremated bone and unburnt cattle bone. The greatest amount of cremated bone, mixed with charcoal, was lying on the paving stone. One of the stones lining the pit was found to be some type of grinding stone (O'Conor 2006, 319). (O'Conor and Dillon 2002, 133-5)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 26 June 2013
References
O'Conor, K. and Dillon, M. 2002 The 2002 excavation at Granardkill, Co. Longford. In J. Burns and B. Grier (eds), Granard: its history, our heritage, 129-138. Longford. Granard Guild ICA.
O'Conor, K. 2006 Granardkille: Bronze Age, early medieval/post medieval. In I. Bennet (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 318-19. Bray. Wordwell.