What is recorded here

Flat cemetery in Cummer, County Wexford, Ireland. Three cists holding urns appeared west of a ring-cairn around 1840, but the exact spot has vanished beneath a modern farmyard. One urn yielded a pygmy cup, now preserved in the National Museum of Ireland. The dead may have watched the living settle that slope before forgetting the cemetery entirely.

According to Kinahan (1879-88, 156) three cists containing urns were found W of a ring-cairn (WX002-044----) at Cummer c. 1840. One urn contained a pygmy cup, which is now in NMI (Kavanagh 1977, 89). The precise location of the cemetery is unknown, but it was in an area then occupied as a concentrated settlement, and now developed as a farmyard. It was situated towards the top of a S-facing slope just down from a col between low hills c. 400m to the W and E and c. 40-50m higher than the col. The above 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: 1 February, 2012

Bronze Age cist burials associated with a ring-cairn; significant for their urns and grave goods, including a pygmy cup now in the National Museum of Ireland.

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