2021:060 - Moneycarroll, Wicklow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wicklow Site name: Moneycarroll

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 21E0208

Author: Yvonne Whitty

Site type: Early medieval burials

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 72358m, N 705083m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.086775, -6.113697

The site comprised three isolated 6th-7th-century lintel graves at least two of which were shroud wrapped. Preliminary analysis indicates that these were all females over the age of 35.  The burials were located at the north-east corner of the site at ITM 72358.31E and 705083.82N and at an OD level of 100.571m above sea level. Post-excavation analysis is ongoing.

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