Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Clonshannon, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonshannon
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96979, -6.56371
- SMR number
- WI022-017----
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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 on a low E-W ridge with marshy ground immediately to the W and S. Three cists excavated in 1931 (Mahr and Price 1932). (1) Polygonal cist with inverted encrusted urn covering the cremation of a young adult male with sherds of a vase urn and some cremated bone (probably disturbed burial) c. 0.6m to S. (2) Small square cist (dims. 0.55m x 0.55m) with sherds of a vase and the cremation of an adult. (3) Polygonal cist (dims. 0.48m x 0.41m) with an inverted vase urn covering the cremation of a child (aged 5-6 years) and a biconical cup. Not visible at ground level. (Waddell 1990, 159-60)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.