Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Killincooly More, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killincooly More
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48824, -6.27774
- SMR number
- WX028-004----
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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 NE-facing slope with a small NW-SE stream c. 100m to the NE, and the sea-shore is c. 700m to the SE. A Vase urn with a cremation (Grattan-Esmonde 1903, 69-70), a bowl food vessel with a crouched inhumation in a cist that may have been discovered in 1888 and a bowl food vessel, possibly with cremation in a cist, (Ó Ríordáin 1936, 187-90) were discovered in close proximity to each other. (Waddell 1990. 157)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 18 July 2012
References
Esmonde, T.H. Grattan 1903 Some further finds in north Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 32, 68-70.
Ó Ríordáin, S. P. 1936 Food vessel from the townland of Killincooley More, Co. Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 66, 187-90.
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.