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
- 52.75513, -7.70023
- SMR number
- TN036-050026-
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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 at the N end of a raised plateau overlooking lowlands to the E and bog to the N. Two isolated cremation pits revealed during topsoil stripping in 1997. The first cremation consisted of a steep-sided pit (dims. 0.34m x 0.24m x 0.18m D) containing cremated bone within a charcoal-rich fill capped by a light grey subsoil and stone. The second cremation consisted of a shallow concave pit (diam. 0.42m x D 0.16m) containing charcoal and a few tiny fragments of burnt bone and fired clay (Stevens 2000, Killoran 24, 198).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.