Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Rathcot, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcot
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.85828, -6.46862
- SMR number
- WI033-019----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a gentle S/SE-facing slope overlooking a marshy stream valley. A pit containing a vase urn (possibly inverted) (NMI 1932-6163), with acremation, clay, and charcoal, discovered c. 1870. Not visible at ground level. (Price 1934, 47-8; Waddell 1990, 166)
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.