Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremated remains
Harristown, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Harristown
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.18420, -7.01223
- SMR number
- WA027-007007-
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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
Harristown passage tomb (WA027-007----) was excavated in 1939 by J. Hawkes (1941). The covering cairn (diam. c. 15.25m) had spilled outside the orthostats, and it may have had an outer kerb of dispersed orthostats. The cairn contained secondary burials, all cremations, one with a vase food vessel, three with cordoned urns, one of which had a pygmy cup, and an unclassifiable urn. The cremated remains of at least four others were found in two deposits, and the associated finds of the secondary burials comprise a razor, a faience bead and perforated bone pins. The remains of an adult male were found in two shallow pits outside the kerb of the passage tomb at N (Waddell 1990, 145, 7)
Hawkes, J. (1941) Excavation of a megalithic tomb at Harristown, Co. Waterford. JRSAI, vol. 71, 130-47.
Waddell, J. (1990) The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 31 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.