Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Tankardstown South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tankardstown South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40448, -8.61169
- SMR number
- LI047-012003-
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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 30m S of the townland boundary with Ballygubba. Located within excavated ring ditch (LI047-012004-) that was cut into Neolithic House Site 2 (LI047-012002-) and 30m W of excavated Neolithic house Site 1 (LI047-012001-). Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. The cremation pit was identified in 1987 during excavations by Christine Tarbett and Margaret Gowen when two cuttings were opened within an area 30m north and north-west of House 1 and was described as follows; ‘A pit, containing two badly broken, upright, undecorated Bronze Age pots, each containing a cremation, was found 0.3m from the east trench in the interior of House 2 [LI047-012002-]’ (Tarbett and Gowen 1988, 21).
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 1 September
References
Tarbett, C. and Gowen, M. 1988 Tankardstown South; Neolithic Settlement. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1987: Summary Accounts of Archaeological Excavations in Ireland, 21 No. 35. Wordwell, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.