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Slab-lined burial

Millquarter (Bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Slab-lined burial, Millquarter, 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
Millquarter (Bantry By.)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not idnicated
Coordinates
52.38269, -6.83550
SMR number
WX030-051----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located towards the bottom a an E-facing slope on a low NW-SE spur with a small N-S stream c. 130m to the E and a small NW-SE stream c. 240m to the S. A stone-lined cist (dims. c. 1.8m x 0.6m; D 0.6m) but apparently without any human remains or pottery was discovered in ploughing and reported to the National Museum of Ireland in 1934. A sherd of late Medieval pottery was recovered nearby, but the discovery was not investigated further. (SMR file; Cahill and Sikora, 2011, vol. 2, 457-8)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 15 August, 2012

References

Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.

Nearby in the register

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

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