Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Brougher, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brougher
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01641, -8.37496
- SMR number
- SL040-155002-
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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 a mound barrow (SL040-15501-). Raftery (1973, 186-8) recorded the discovery in 1962 of a small pit, covered by a single slab, c. 0.3m below the surface of the mound and c. 4.5m from the short cist (SL040-15503-). The pit was not investigated at the time of discovery and was later described from memory by the finder. A decorated bowl food vessel (H 8.9cm; diam. at base 6.6cm; int. diam. at rim 10.3cm) was found mouth upwards in the pit (ibid.) and is now in the National Museum of Ireland. According to the finder, there were no bones or grave-goods associated with the food vessel (Raftery 1973, 188). (Ó Ríordáin and Waddell 1993, 130)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.