Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Rampark, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rampark
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LH008-122----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered during the construction of a house in 2004 (Excavation Licence No. 04E1559). Field once referred to as 'Pairc na Reilige'. To the W of the house, three cremation burials, two in pits and one in an undecorated urn were uncovered. One of the cremation pits was within a miniature ring-ditch, 0.25m wide, with an overall diameter of 1.3m, which also contained cremated bone.
Found alongside an Early Christian burial ground (LH008-121----), a kiln (LH008-123----), two souterrains (LH008-124---- and LH008-125----), a furnace (LH008-126----) and a number of pits. (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