Urn burials (site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Urn burials emerged in County Dublin when quarrymen cut through a sand and gravel ridge in 1892, exposing bowls and vases that had waited beneath ordinary earth. Further digging in 1898 revealed cists and pit burials, suggesting a repeated human choice to return departed bodies to the ground with vessels beside them. The site is now built upon, but those containers still imply a community careful enough to prepare food, drink or memory for someone no longer present.

These burials were first uncovered in 1892 during the quarrying of a sand and gravel ridge (NMI 1892:48). The remains comprised a burial with a bowl food vessel and an uncontexted vase food vessel. In 1898 there were further discoveries of two cists with two pit burials and two other possible pit burials (Plunkett 1898-190, 388). One contained an urn, the other a food vessel/urn (Waddell 1970, 116; 1990, 83). There is a development on the site. Compiled by Geraldine Stout

Urn burials at Greenhills are likely of Early Christian or early medieval date, associated with cremation practices in Ireland. Their significance lies in providing evidence of funerary customs and pottery traditions from this period.

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