What is recorded here

Under a tilted cap-stone near the ringfort entrance, a small cremated burial waited for centuries. The least elaborate death marker in the fort, it held barely enough bone to remember, as if the dead person mattered less to the living than the stones above them.

Cremation burial in W quadrant of bivallate ringfort (LI048-034016-) excavated by Ó Ríordáin (1940, 128-132) between 1934-5. Described by Ó Ríordáin (1940, 112) as; 'Burial No. V is the least elaborate of those to be described. Under the second of the two large stones, which showed near the entrance to the fort, we found a cremated burial partly protected by the cap-stone, some of the remains lying outside the area it covered. The cap-stone was supported (as will be seen on the plan) on an irregular group of stones. The amount of cremated remains found was small but some of the deposit could easily have been removed at some period as were the greater portion of the urn in Burial 4 (LI048-034020-) and presumably part of the cremated bones contained in it’. See attached plans and photos from Ó Ríordáin and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 September 2021

Cremation burial within a bivallate ringfort, dating to the Early Christian period. Its significance lies in providing evidence of funerary practices associated with early Irish monastic or rural settlements.

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