Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Newtown (clanwilliam By., Kilmurry Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (clanwilliam By., Kilmurry Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65459, -8.55063
- SMR number
- LI006-092005-
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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
Cremation pit excavated prior to the construction of the M7 National Road. An area initially identified in field 8 during archaeological test trenching carried out under licence no. 00E0853 in advance of the Limerick Southern Ring-Road Project (Hayes 2001). Located adjacent to 2 Enclosures (LI006-092001-/-092006-), 2 hut sites (LI006-092003-/-092004-), Cremation pit (LI006-092005-), and other miscellaneous features (LI006-092002-). The results of the testing recorded finds of Bronze Age funerary pottery and a fragment of an Early Christian glass armlet (www.excavations.ie 2001:787; Hayes 2000, Hayes 2003, 241). The cremation was located in the south east quadrant of the enclosure (LI006-092006-) and excavated by Frank Coyne under Licence No. 01E0214, the results were summarised as following; ‘The first phase is centred around an early Bronze Age cemetery. Fragments of at least seven funerary pots were recovered, including one almost complete example of a vase urn. A quantity of cremated bone was also associated with these pots, which contained the remains of at least three individuals, two adults and a child (Linda Lynch, osteoarchaeologist, pers. comm.). No grave-goods were associated with these vessels’ (www.excavations.ie 2001:79; Coyne 2003, 242).
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 16 June 2020
References
Hayes, A. 2003 Newtown, Co. Limerick Testing. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 241 (No. 787). Bray. Wordwell.
Coyne, F. 2003 Newtown, Co. Limerick Multi period site. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 242 (No. 791). Bray. Wordwell.
Coyne, F. 2001 Archaeological report on the excavation at Newtown (A & E), Co. Limerick found during the monitoring of the Limerick Southern Ring Road Phase 1. Unpublished report (Licence No. 01E0214) submitted by Aegis Archaeology Ltd. on behalf of Limerick Co. Co. to the National Monuments Service, Dúchas
Nearby in the register
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- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.