Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Corradoon, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corradoon
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20577, -7.75293
- SMR number
- WA013-042----
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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 encrusted urn (Kavanagh 1973, 565) was found inverted in a pit over the cremated remains of a child, with fragments of a possible bowl food vessel. It was found in ploughing during 1967. (Lucas, 1971, JRSAI, 220-22; Waddell 1990, 145)
Lucas, A. T. (1971) National Museum of Ireland: archaeological acquisitions in 1968. JRSAI 102, 181-239.
Waddell, J. (1990) The Bronze Age burials of Ieland. Galway University Press.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barracksunder 1 mi
- Hut site1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.