Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Monamintra, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monamintra
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20870, -7.08743
- SMR number
- WA018-084001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Situated at the E edge of ditch-barrow (WA018-084----), which is in a low col with the summits of hills rising c. 570m to the NNW and c. 630m to the E. A pit-burial was discovered in a test excavation (07E0347) by O. Scully (2007d) and consists of a Collared Urn in a stone-lined pit (diam. of top 0.55m; D c. 0.5m). Two pit burials (WA018-084002- and WA018-084003-) are immediately adjacent.
Scully, O. (2007d) R708 Airport road Realignment, Phase 3, Co. Waterford. Report on archaeological test excavations in advance of construction at three location along the route of the Airport Road Realignment. Licence: 07E0347. Unpublished report. DEHLG. Author.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 February 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.