Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Gardenhill, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gardenhill
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70254, -8.48568
- SMR number
- LI006-098001-
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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 NW-facing slope, in pasture, c. 50m to E of a stream. Identified by Tracy Collins in 2006 during test trenching (Road Scheme Reg. No. E2320; Ministerial Direction No. A026) prior to the construction of the Southern Limerick Ring-Road and excavated by Aidan Harte in the same year as part of Gardenhill Site 1 (Harte 2009, 325). Located c. 90m to W of miscellaneous excavation (LI006-089002-). A subcircular-shaped pit (0.75m NW-SE; 0.65m NE-SW; D 0.12m) contained several fills including one that contained charcoal and burnt bone (Harte 2009, 325).
See attached location plan from excavation report.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 1 July 2020
References
Harte, A. 2009 Gardenhill; Cremation and pits. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 325, No. 1262. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.