Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Ballygrennan (coshma By., Bruff Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygrennan (coshma By., Bruff Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45588, -8.54314
- SMR number
- LI040-005----
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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
In pasture, 45m N of a road that marks townland boundary with Goat Island. Group of three cremation pits identified as (BGE 2/29/1) during work associated with the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh-Limerick gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 106-07). Described by Gowen (1988, 106-7) as 'the pits occurred within 5m of each other and had a maximum depth of just 4cm. They measured 40-50cm in diameter and were filled with a black silty clay containing very fine fragments of burnt none'.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 20 May 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.