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-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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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.