Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Urn burial
Knockadea, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadea
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.32021, -8.32986
- SMR number
- LI057-072----
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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
The location of three cinerary urns discovered in May of 1929 in the townland of Knockadea has been recently identified by local historian, Nioclàs Ó Duinnín. The discovery of two cist burials 'near Knockadea' was described by Waddell (1970, 123) as; ‘A small vault' [LI057-071----] approximately 3 ft. [0.9m] x 2 ft. [0.6m] found c. 1916; it contained 'fragments of dried bones'. Six feet [1.8m] away an inverted encrusted urn burial [LI057-072----] was found'.
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by James O'Brien and Nioclàs Ó Duinnín
Date of revised upload: 21 February 2022
References
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.