Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Urn burial
Cush, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cush
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.38074, -8.44272
- SMR number
- LI048-034017-
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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
One of 4 urn/cist burials (LI048-034017/020-) in W half of bivallate ringfort (LI048-034016-) excavated by Ó Ríordáin (1940, 128-132) between 1934-5. Urn burial described by Ó Ríordáin (1940, 112) as; ‘Burial No. I – Set in an irregular pocket of the reddish filling already referred to and surrounded by a deposit of charcoal we found, mouth upwards and otherwise unprotected, an urn completely filled with cremated bones some of which were found to have over-flowed the urn and lay in the bottom of the hollow in which the urn stood.’
See attached plans and photos from Ó Ríordáin.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 5 September 2021
References
Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1940 Excavations at Cush, Co. Limerick (1934 and 1935). Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 45, 83-181.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
- Cremated remainsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.