Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Friarhill, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarhill
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05865, -6.66190
- SMR number
- WI015-021----
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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
Situated at a break in a marked S-facing slope overlooking the confluence of two small valleys. A rectangular cist containing cremated bone was found in the course of quarrying for sand in a tumulus (diam. c. 37m). The burial was not further disturbed. The tumulus appears to have been removed subsequently through further quarrying. (Walshe 1931, 121; Waddell 1990, 162)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.