Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Smarmore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Smarmore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80240, -6.55840
- SMR number
- LH020-001----
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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 ploughing in June 1949 and subsequently excavated by A.T. Lucas. A rock-cut pit (diam. at top 0.6m; diam. at base 0.3m; D 0.5m) covered by a flat rectangular stone. The pit contained an inverted Cordoned Urn over a cremated deposit, that of an adult, possibly male. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 1, 287-290; Kavanagh 1976, 370, no. 40).
The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 6 July 2012
Revised by: Claire Breen
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.
Kavanagh, R.M. 1976 Collared and cordoned cinerary urns in Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 76C, 349-350.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.