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Pit-burial

Newtown (Shelmaliere West By., Carrick ED), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Pit-burial, Newtown, 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
Newtown (Shelmaliere West By., Carrick ED)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.34920, -6.51142
SMR number
WX037-029----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · 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

Situated towards the N end of a N-S ridge with the narrow part of the W-E River Slaney (Wth c. 100m NE-SW) c. 170m to the NE. The rim of a collared urn and a small sample of cremated bone, probably representing an older adolescent, were recovered from what was probably a pit-burial in 1984 (Sikora 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: 14 December, 2012

References

Sikora, M. 2011 3.96 Newtown, Co. Wexford, E1189, in Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (Eds) Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, vol. 1, 596-8. Dublin, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

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

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