Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Monadreela, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monadreela
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52973, -7.85921
- SMR number
- TS061-162----
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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
An area c. 40m x 40m was excavated in advance of construction of the N8 Cashel Bypass and N74 Link Road South on the sloping ground to the S of a small lake. The excavation revealed a concentration of activity in the form of pits and post-holes (TS061-159----). Near the western edge of the excavated area, a pit-burial was uncovered. This consisted of a sub-circular pit (diam. 0.2m; D 0.11m) with a flat base, filled with dark brown-black charcoal rich friable silty clay with large amounts of charcoal and cremated bone, and a tiny fragment of a chert flake at the base (O'Flanagan 2004, 11 - unpublished excavation report). Another pit-burial is located 8m to the NNE (TS061-160----). A kiln (TS061-168----) was located c. 10m S of the lake and the trough of a fulacht fia (TS061-163----) was uncovered at the eastern edge of the excavated area.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Flanagan, N. 2004 N8 Cashel Bypass & N74 Link Road: phase 2 archaeological investigations. Site No. 5. Licence No. 03E0299. Unpublished archaeological excavation report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.