Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Ballyeeskeen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyeeskeen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24542, -8.83286
- SMR number
- SL012-053003-
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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
In an unclassified barrow (SL012-053001-). This pit-burial was discovered when the barrow was excavated in 1963 in advance of road-widening works on the N 59 Sligo-Ballina road (Danaher 1964, 145). The pit-burial, which represented a secondary phase of activity at the barrow, was inserted into the E side of the barrow. It consisted of a pit in which the cremated remains of an adult human of unknown gender were placed. Ccremated animal bones were also recovered and five decorated pottery sherds of Food Vessel type Food Vessel-like. Twelve fragments of chert were found in the vicinity of the pit-burial. (Danaher 1964, 145-158)
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 May 2013
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.