What is recorded here

Flat cemetery in Duntryleague, County Limerick, Ireland: a small prehistoric burial place discovered in 1682, with at least two cist graves and perhaps fifteen urn burials, now lost to the exact field where it lay.

The precise location of a prehistoric flat-cemetery discovered in 1682 in the townland of Duntryleague has not been identified. Waddell (1990, 108) recorded that; ‘A small, ill-recorded flat cemetery was discovered in 1682 and seems to have comprised at least two cist graves and perhaps fifteen urn burials.’ Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 19 August 2021

A prehistoric flat cemetery, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age, representing a communal burial site significant for understanding local funerary practices.

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