Urn burial

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on the N side of a col at the S foot of Carrickshawn Hill, with a low hill rising c. 500m to the SE, and on a gentle E-facing slope. An inverted cordoned urn with all over incised and hatched decoration was found in 1935 at the base of a field bank (Ó Ríordáin 1936). It contained some cremated bone but too little to analyse. According to local reports a similar urn (WX039-042----) had been found c. 230m to the NNW around 1890. A geophysical survey (20R0066) by J. M. Leigh of a small area(dims c. 60m x c. 40m) c. 120m to the NE at the closest point produced evidence of possible archaeological features, but archaeological testing (20E0242) by C. McLoughlin failed to produce any evidence of archaeological features (McLoughlin 2020). (Culleton 1984, 39-41; Waddell 1990, 155)

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: 24 January, 2013
Amended: 9 November 20222

References

McLoughlin, C. 2020 Archaeological Assessment Report, Ballyvelig, Co. Wexford. Licence: 20E0242. Unpublished report, Stafford McLoughlin

McLoughlin, C. 2020 Archaeological Assessment Report, Moneytucker, Co. Wexford. Licence: 20E0425. Unpublished report, Stafford McLoughlin

Ó Ríordáin, S. P. 1936 Miscellanea - Two Bronze Age burials from Co. Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 66, 186-7.

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

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