Urn burial in Gorey Corporation Lands

Fragments of an encrusted urn (WX007-055----) and fragments of a vase urn that was inverted over cremated bone were found in the face of a gravel quarry in 1989. The cremation represented an adult female. (Ó Floinn 2011) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 March, 2012

Urn burial; late Bronze Age to early Iron Age. This burial provides evidence of cremation practices and funerary urn use in the region during the transition between the Bronze and Iron Ages.