Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Templerainy, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templerainy
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.82147, -6.14457
- SMR number
- WI040-058----
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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
This is the record for four adjacent pits (Site M) excavated by Brendán Ó Riordáin (97E0083) on the Arklow bypass road scheme. The pits contained cremated remains and sherds of Beaker pottery, as well as flint artefacts. This pottery would place the burials in the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age period. (Ó Riordáin 1999)
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 25 January 2013
References
Ó Ríordáin, B 1999 Archaeological Monitoring, Arklow Bypass, Co. Wicklow, 97E0083. Unpublished excavation report submitted to Heritage and Planning Division, National Monuments Service, Department Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.