Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Urn burial
Gorey Corporation Lands, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorey Corporation Lands
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67161, -6.28869
- SMR number
- WX007-055001-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Fragments of an encrusted urn (WX007-055----) and fragments of a vase urn that was inverted over cremated bone were found in the face of a gravel quarry in 1989. The cremation represented an adult female. (Ó Floinn 2011)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 March, 2012
References
Ó Floinn, R. 2011 3.92 Gorey Corporation Lands, Co. Wexford. In M. Cahill and M. Sikora (eds.), Breaking ground, finding graves – reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 1, 576-83. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.