What is recorded here

Fire stripped the flesh and bone before the pit swallowed what remained, reducing a whole life to ash and fragment beneath a flat stone. The owner of that body is gone without a name, but the care taken to cremate, bury and cover the remains is still visible in the shape of the hole.

Uncovered during ploughing in March 1960 and investigated by O Riordáin on behalf of the National Museum of Ireland later that month. Large capstone (dims. 1.85m x 1.25m; T 0.07m), covering a concave pit (max. dims. 0.9m x 0.6m; D 0.5m) containing the cremated remains of at least one adult (1960:402). No artifacts were identified (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 1, 134-137). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 February 2013

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