Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Knockainy West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockainy West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47230, -8.45615
- SMR number
- LI040-024----
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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
Cist graves described by Raftery (1941, 304) as following: 'Clashmore, Knockainey West, Co. Limerick. Several extended inhumations. Some in slab-lined graves, some not'. This discovery of eight burials was described by O'Kelly (1944, 23) as; ''These cists were first uncovered in the course of digging for sand. A rescue excavation was carried out on behalf of the National Museum, when a total of about 8 burials was uncovered, some of which were unprotected skeletons. Others had been removed before the excavator's arrival and still others were left unexcavated. The bodies lay E-W with the heads to the W., and all were extended burials. There were no associated finds but in the vicinity of the graves a quern stone was found. It is probable that the graves belong to the Early Iron Age or to the Early Christian period'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 09 August 2019
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.
Raftery, J. 1941 Long stone cists of the Early Iron Age. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 46C, 299-315.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.