Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Ballyknock, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyknock
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53891, -7.86452
- SMR number
- TS061-155----
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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
Uncovered during archaeological excavation of the N8 Cashel bypass. A pit (diam. 0.43m; D 0.38m) containing frequent inclusions of burnt bone and charcoal was found under a field boundary (McKinstry 2004, 11-12, 20). A radiocarbon date of 3460±70 BP/2940-1610 cal. BC was obtained for the cremation (Fairburn 2006, 457).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 August 2014
References
Fairburn, N. 2006 N8 Cashel Bypass and N74 Link Road. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 457. Bray. Wordwell.
McKinstry, L. 2004 N8 Cashel Bypass & N74 Link Road: Phase 2 archaeological investigations. Site No. 1ii. Licence No. 03E0740. Unpublished archaeological excavation report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.