Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Churchtown (shelburne By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchtown (shelburne By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13066, -6.93329
- SMR number
- WX054-015----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the W edge of the flat, low-lying landscape of the Hook peninsula at Little Cove. In 2000 human remains resting on bedrock (D 0.55m) were discovered at the edge of a low cliff, and the exposed scull was excavated (00E0872) (Brady and Kelleher 2002). Continued erosion necessitated the complete excavation (05E0914) of what proved to be a single burial (Ó Drisceoil 2008) of a young male (aged c. 21-25) in a large grave-cut oriented NW-SE with the head at NW. A C14 determination of AD 1650-1950 was returned for what is probably the hurried burial of a shipwreck victim.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 31 March, 2014
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2008 Churchtown, Hook Head. Human skeletal remains, in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland. 397-8, No. 1617. Dublin, Wordwell
Brady, K. and Kelleher, C. 2002 Churchtown. Human remains. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 353, No. 1049. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.