Pit-burial in Clyderragh — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Charcoal and cremated bone lay hidden beside a rath in Clyderragh, waiting for a power line to tear the ground open. The pit marks a violent or ceremonial death, perhaps belonging to the people who lived inside the nearby earthwork. Fire reduced the body to fragments before burial, suggesting grief, ritual or fear rather than ordinary forgetting.

During archaeological monitoring of the Charleville to Newmarket 110kV line development, a deposit of charcoal-rich material with cremated bone was uncovered (Lyttleton 2006, 46). A rath (CO007-035----) is located 50m to the WNW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Pit-burial in Clyderragh is a funerary deposit of the Early Medieval period, likely associated with a rath. Its significance lies in the presence of cremated bone and charcoal-rich material, indicating ritual or domestic activity linked to burial practices in the region.

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