What is recorded here

Flat cemetery in Rampark is a Bronze Age cremation site where three dead were burned and buried beside an Early Christian ground. The field was once called Pairc na Reilige, a name meaning grave garden, suggesting people remembered the place long before a house broke the soil in 2004. One cremation pit sat inside a tiny ring-ditch only 1.3 metres across, as if marking a person, a family or a small cult with a boundary no larger than a hearth.

Discovered during the construction of a house in 2004 (Excavation Licence No. 04E1559). Field once referred to as 'Pairc na Reilige'. To the W of the house, three cremation burials, two in pits and one in an undecorated urn were uncovered. One of the cremation pits was within a miniature ring-ditch, 0.25m wide, with an overall diameter of 1.3m, which also contained cremated bone. Found alongside an Early Christian burial ground (LH008-121----), a kiln (LH008-123----), two Man-made underground passages (LH008-124---- and LH008-125----), a furnace (LH008-126----) and a number of pits. (Campbell 2007, 268-9) Reference: Campbell K. 2007 Rampark Early Christian cemetery, Man-made underground passages; Bronze Age cremations. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 268-9 (No. 1122). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 13 March 2012

A Neolithic flat cemetery, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, associated with early funerary practices in the region. Its significance lies in the presence of cremation burials, reflecting ritual and social customs of the Neolithic period.

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