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Pit-burial

Ballintubbrid, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Pit-burial, Ballintubbrid, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballintubbrid
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47600, -6.30203
SMR number
WX028-006----

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David 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

Located on a NE-facing slope. An inverted cordoned urn containing the cremation of an adult, a stone battle axe and a flint flake was found in a pit (diam. of top c. 07m; D 0.8) capped with a stone in 1974 (Ryan 1975). (Culleton 1984, 37-9; Waddell 1990, 154)

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

Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.

Culleton, E. 1984 Early man in Co. Wexford: 5000 BC to 300 BC. Dublin, Agricultural Institute

Ryan, M. 1975 Urn burial at Ballintubbrid, near Blackwater, county Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaris of Ireland, 105, 132-45.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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