Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Kilteasheen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilteasheen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.00125, -8.20158
- SMR number
- RO006-012004-
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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
Situated on a rise on the N bank of the W-E Boyle river just as it leaves Lough Key and recovered in the excavation of the fosse around the burial ground (RO006-012001-), which had been closed by the 14th century. About 150 burials oriented E-W were recovered from two phases of activity in the enclousure, together with re-deposited prehistoric lithic material, (Read et al. 2005; Read 2009e, 460)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Read, C., Finan, T. and Barton, K. 2005 Initial findings at Kilteasheen, Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon. Archaeology Ireland 19 (3), 18-20.
Read, C. 2009e Kilteaseen: high medieval Gaelic lordly site. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 459-61, No. 1736. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.