Standing stone

The National Monuments Service's description

At the summit of Kiltullagh Hill with a modern quarry c. 30m to the S in Co. Mayo where human remains dating to 3rd to 6th century AD were found in 1991 (Cribin et al. 1994). This is a rectangular stone (dims 0.7m x 0.2m; H 1.2m) aligned ENE-WSW with three holes (dims 0.04-0.06m; D 0.04-0.05m) in its W edge. Excavation (94E0030) around its base (McCormick 1994) revealed a fourth hole on its W edge together with a male inhumation and pieces of a cremation burial (RO032-001004-). Further excavation (96E0179) recovered more inhumations and a cremation were found in the vicinity (Robinson and Coombs 2000, 179). Ring-barrow (RO032-001002-) is c. 5m to the NE, but a second ring-barrow (RO032-001003-) (Knox 1914a, 45-6, Ring No. 1), whose position is uncertain lay to the W, and is probably in Co. Mayo.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Cribin, G.; McCormick, F; Robinson, M. E., and Shimwell, D. 1994 A destroyed late Iron-age burial from Kiltullagh, Ballyglass Middle td., Co. Mayo. Emania vol. 12, 61-5.

Knox, H.T. 1914 Ruins of Cruachain Ai. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 1-50.

McCormick, F. 1994 A new light on burial practice. In Archaeology Ireland 8 (3), 27-8.

Robinson, M.E. and Coombs, D.G. 2000 Kiltullagh Hill, Kiltullagh: inhumanations. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 179, No. 561. Bray. Wordwell.