Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Derrybane, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrybane
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86377, -8.09983
- SMR number
- TN021-106----
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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
11 pits in a cluster of which 9 appear to be for cremation or cooking - probably
Bronze Age. Lots of cremated bone. One saucer shaped pit appears to have stakes in it as if was a charcoal kiln. No pottery or other significant finds.
Around 20 cremations in small, unlined pits. Each one is clearly visible with a dark,
charcoal rich fill and occasional burnt bone. No great quantities of burnt bone have
been found. One pit contains the remains of a complete pot (top truncated by
ploughing). Occasional large, sunken hearth-ovens. Many blobs of whitish silts
proved to be natural upwelling of water that had leeched the natural (silty-sand)
geological drift.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.