Flat cemetery

The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle SSW-facing slope, in pasture, on the N side of Schoolhouse Road, Castletroy. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Flor Hurley in 2003 during monitoring (License No. 03E1382) for a housing scheme known as Glantan and excavated (License No. 03E1717) by Niamh O’Callaghan later in 2003. Area 6 (50m to S of Area 1) contained four cremation pits which were situated c. 15m to NE of miscellaneous excavation (LI005-088003-). These were similar in size and form to those excavated in Areas 1 and 2. They all contained fragments of cremated bone and a small number of pottery sherds were recorded in two examples. Two of the cremation pits were oval-shaped and two were circular-shaped and all contained charcoal and burnt bone within the deposits (Hurley 2003, 9-10).

See attached plan extract from monitoring report (Hurley 2003).

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 30 June 2020

References

O’Callaghan, N. 2006 Kilbane, Castletroy; Bronze Age Landscape. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 309, No. 1150. Bray. Wordwell.

Hurley, F. 2003 Archaeological monitoring at Kilbane, Castletroy, Co. Limerick. License no. 03E1382. Unpublished report for the National Monument Service, Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Dublin.