What is recorded here

Flat cemetery in Loggan Lower, County Wexford, holds at least four known cists with urns, scattered near the motte and bailey and a standing stone. Men levelling the ground broke open the first three, and another appeared beside the stone, while more lay hidden a short distance west. The dead were buried shallow, without markers, trusting the land itself to keep them. What is lost is not mystery but distance; the cists are still there, waiting to be stepped on again.

Three urns in cists were discovered in levelling the possible bailey at Loggan Lower motte and bailey (WX002-004001-). Another was found near a standing stone (WX002-004003-) (Kinahan 1882, 154–5), which appears to have been S of the bailey (Westropp 1904, 343). Further cists were found c. 300m to the W, but the precise locations of these discoveries cannot be identified. (Waddell 1990, 157) The abovr description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 27 January 2012

Medieval cemetery; associated with a motte and bailey, indicating a local settlement or defensive site from the 11th to 13th century. The presence of urns and a standing stone suggests possible pre-Norman or hybrid burial practices.

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