What is recorded here

Knockaderry holds twenty-one cremation pits and a two-metre circular hut from deep prehistory, now buried beneath modern development. The dead gave up their bodies to fire, yet the shape of their grief remains sharp in the soil. A small hut stood beside them, perhaps for mourning or waiting, while linear marks suggested early fields stretched across the land.

Test-trenching Graham Hull (07E0179) 'in advance of a proposed housing development located a cremation burial cemetery (21 pits) and a circular hut site (2m diameter). These features are very probably prehistoric in date. Linear features were also found and these may relate to early field systems.' The above description is posted on the web at the following internet address: http://www.excavations.ie/ (accessed 27 August 2012). This is the record for the flat cemetery (cremation burials) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 27 August 2012

A prehistoric cremation burial cemetery and circular hut site; likely Neolithic or Bronze Age, indicating early settlement and funerary practices in the area.

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