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
- 52.75095, -7.68470
- SMR number
- TN036-050006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a raised plateau overlooking lowlands to the E. Pit burials (TN036-050003 and 005) are located 10m and 95m respectively to the S. The site was revealed during topsoil stripping and consisted of a single oval-shpaed pit (dims. 1m E-W x 0.7m N-S x 0.41m D) containing a single fragment of burnt bone and charcoal which had been cut into the subsoil (Stevens 1998, Killoran 7, 172).
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.