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
- WA018-084003-
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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 recorded during the complete excavation (07E0347) of the barrow by J. D. Lalonde (2008) and consists of a miniature Collared Urn in a stone-lined pit (diam. 0.25m; D 0.2m). Two further pit burials (WA018-084001- and WA018-084002-) are immediately adjacent.
Lalonde, D. J. (2008) R708 Airport road realignment scheme Phase 3. Archaeological excavation at Monamintra 2, Co. Waterford. Preliminary report. (Unpublished report DEHLG) Daniel Noonan Archaeological Consultancy.
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.