Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremated remains
Knocklore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89777, -6.59133
- SMR number
- LH014-070----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 98E0125 (Site F)). Excavation revealed a circular spread of grey charcoal rich soil (diam. 0.9m), from which fragments of cremated human bone and cattle bone were recovered. (Breen 2000, 153)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 31 May 2012
References
Breen, T. 2000 Tattyboys/Knocklore/Cookstown/Rahanna/Harristown/Glebe. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 153 (No. 471). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.