Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Clonascra, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonascra
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33398, -7.93984
- SMR number
- OF006-135----
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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
Human remains, discovered at the edge of a gravel ridge at Clonascra near Clonmacnoise in August 2001, were excavated by Anne Carey under licence no. 02E636 on 21 May 2002. A single prone human skeleton, 1.5m long, was orientated north-east/south-west. No finds were associated with the skeleton, which was in poor condition. Potential enclosure (OF006-014----) located 36m to the N of this burial.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.