Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Corelish West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corelish West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI024-100----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of this pit burial within the townland has not been identified. The burial was found in a sand pit in the townland of Corelish West, in the vicinity of Pallasgreen. According to a letter 19/08/1934 to the director of the National Museum of Ireland, the site consisted of roughly circular-shaped pits (D 3ft [0.9m]) each capped by a single stone were discovered. They contained small bones and ashes, with one of the diagnostic bones later identified as the mandible of a juvenile (NMI Topographical Files). Not known of locally.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 21 July 2020