Burial in Athgarrett

In undulating pasture. Discovered in 1983 during topsoil-stripping for the construction of the Cork-Dublin natural gas pipeline. Most of a flat-based, bucket-shaped pot containing ‘tiny fragments of burnt bone’ was found standing upright in a pit of only very slightly larger volume and shape, which may originally have been sealed by a covering stone. While the paucity of the burnt bone led the excavator to caution against interpreting it as a cinerary urn, the form of the vessel suggests a Late Bronze Age date. (Cleary et al. 1987, 43). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 July 2012

A Neolithic burial; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in its association with early funerary practices and the use of pottery for containing human remains in Ireland.