Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Coolnaboy, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnaboy
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42886, -6.51698
- SMR number
- WX032-042----
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a fairly level low-lying landscape. A pit (diam. 0.5m; D 0.45m) was discovered in 1988. It contained the cremated remains of an adult with a fragment of a bronze pin within an upturned vase urn that had an inverted vase food vessel on top of it (Cahill 2011). Two samples of charcoal produced calibrated C14 dates of 2140-1786 BC. (Cahill 2011)
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: 31 August, 2012
References
Cahill, M. 2011 3.89. Coolnaboy, Co. Wexford, E1181. in Cahill and Sikora (eds) Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. 2 vols, vol. 1, 563-9. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.