- Ballinclea, Co. Wicklow, Wicklow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wicklow Site name: Ballinclea, Co. Wicklow

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Site type: Graves ofindeterminate date

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ITM: E 728002m, N 683487m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.887010, -6.153830

In April 1933 human remains were discovered in a partially destroyed mound at Ballinclea, Co. Wicklow.306 The remains were burnt and were contained in the upper levels of a mound of earth and stones known as ‘Webb’s Height’. No structural stones or associated artefacts were found with the remains (1933:3411). The site was visited by District Judge Liam Price, but it was not possible to ascertain any further details as to the disposition of the remains. Price’s diary entry recording his visit to this site is reproduced by Corlett and Weaver (2002, 205) in their edition of the Liam Price notebooks.

306. Parish of Donaghmore, barony of Talbotstown Upper. OS 6in. sheets 21, 22; exact location not marked.