Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Grange (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (ballintober South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72635, -8.23957
- SMR number
- RO028-204014-
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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
Grave 10 is a pit burial containing a Vase Urn inverted over a stone and containing a large cremation deposit including a bronze dagger with its bone pommel. It was inserted in the mound (RO028-204001-) at SE. (Ó Ríordáin 1997, 50)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Ó Ríordáin, A.B. 1997 A Bronze Age cemetery mound at Grange, Co. Roscommon. Journal of Irish Archaeology 8, 43-72.
Brindley, A. L. 1997 The Radiocarbon Dates. in A. B. Ó Ríordáin 1997, 56-7.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.