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Burial

Churchtown (Shelburne By.), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Churchtown, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

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

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