Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Ferns Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ferns Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59052, -6.49402
- SMR number
- WX015-003024-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 SE-facing slope c. 70m NW of St. Evan's cathedral (WX015-003003-). Archaeological testing (03E0254) identified areas of activity over extensive parts of a development site (Sheehan 2006). Further work (04E0535) in Area B excavated a flat cemetery consisting of at least 6 cremation pits, two of which had fragments of undecorated pottery. The cremation pits were intermingled with other pits, some of which had post-medieval debris. Numerous post-holes were also dispersed amongst the pits but no structure could be identified. A hut-site (WX015-003025-) was identified c. 15m to the W in Area C. (Kavanagh 2007)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 30 April, 2012
References
Kavanagh, J. 2009 Ferns Upper, Ferns. Multi-period, in I. Bennett, Excavations 2004. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 466-7, No. 1806. Wordwell. Dublin
Sheehan, C. 2006 Ferns Upper, Ferns. Medieval, in I. Bennett, Excavations 2003. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 532, No. 2018. Wordwell. Bray
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.