Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Kilbane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65727, -8.57301
- SMR number
- LI005-085004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle W-facing slope, in low-lying pasture, c. 315m to NE of the Groody River. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified in 2002 during monitoring (License No. 02E1615) along the line of a drainage wayleave (Collins 2002). Excavated (License No. 02E1772) as a subrectangular-shaped pit (1m N-S; 0.7m E-W; D 0.1m) (Cummins 2002, 16-17). The sides and base were defined by bright red oxidised boulder clay suggesting in situ burning. The black, charcoal-rich fill contained a few tiny fragments of burnt bone but no artefacts. A second pit and a shallow deposit (LI005-084----) are located c. 100m to S.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 26 June 2020
References
Cummins, T. 2002 Archaeological excavations at Kilbane, Co. Limerick. Licence no. 02E1772. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.