Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Rampark, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rampark
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.99731, -6.26241
- SMR number
- LH008-121----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered during the excavation of foundations for a house in 2004 (Excavation Licence No. 04E1559). Field once referred to as 'Pairc na Reilige'. Seven lintel graves, at least three of which had been reopened for secondary interments were uncovered. A further six probable lintel graves were visible in section faces, these were left in situ. A crouched female inhumation and a badly truncated extended inhumation were found 10m away from the concentration of lintel graves.
A second group of Early Christian burials were revealed to the west of the house alongside a flat cemetery (LH008-122----). These comprised of one adult and nine juveniles in simple pit graves. (Campbell 2007, 268-9)
Reference:
Campbell K. 2007 Rampark Early Christian cemetery, souterrains; Bronze Age cremations. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 268-9 (No. 1122). Bray. Wordwell
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 13 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.