Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Killoran (moyne Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoran (moyne Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75059, -7.68485
- SMR number
- TN036-050003-
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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
Situated on the brow of a glacial ridge in undulating countryside. Excavation in 1997 revealed a cluster of post-pits and small pits within an area measuring 7m long by 5.8m wide. Within this cluster an oval pit (0.6m x 0.5m x 0.2m D) containing charcoal lumps and silty clay with tiny burnt bone fragments and a v-shaped pit with an upturned crushed pot containing tiny fragments of crushed cremated bone were identified (Stevens 1998, Killoran 4, 173).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.