What is recorded here

Death in that place followed its own rules. Fire first, clay second, earth last. The urn did not ask to be admired, only remembered. What is buried should remain whole in the mind of the living.

In reclaimed pasture, ringfort (LI048-034008-) 27m to NE, two burial mounds (LI048-034011-012-) immediately to S. In centre of an archaeological complex (LI048-034006/042-) located on the 'Supposed Site of Temaír Erann', which was the ancient cemetery of the Ernai tribe on Slievereagh (Sliabh Riabhach) (Westropp 1919, 9; Westropp 1917-19, 179; Westropp 1918, 111). Excavations of a burial mound (LI048-034010-) listed as ‘Tumulus I’ by Ó Ríordáin (1940, 133-137) between 1934-5, revealed a cist (LI048-034039-). An un burial had previously been recorded during excavations of this burial mound in 1924. According to Ó Ríordáin, ‘the cremated remains found in 1924 were then re-interred at the same spot in an ordinary geranium pot. This re-interred burial was found by us near the centre of the Tumulus [LI048-034010-], as were also some further urn fragments’ (ibid. 1935). See attached plans by Ó Ríordáin. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 27 August 2021

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