County: Tipperary Site name: KILLORAN 10
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0168 ext.
Author: Paul Stevens for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Flat cemetery
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 621645m, N 666241m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.746806, -7.679401
A second season of excavation was undertaken at this large, flat cremation cemetery site in August 1998 to determine its full extent. Features were revealed, recorded and then covered with thick gauge plastic and backfilled and the area fenced off, for preservation and protection.
The excavation consisted of two linear trenches opened on either side of the area previously excavated in 1997 (Excavations 1997, 174–5). The trenches measured 9.2m east-west, 2m wide, extending east, and 18.6m east-west, 2m wide, extending west. Excavation revealed twelve further small, circular pits in the eastern extension trench, six containing a charcoal-rich fill capped with clay and a further six containing charcoal-rich fills.
The entire site was therefore revealed to consist of 67 pits, containing at least 30 individual burials, within an area 11m long and 9m wide, orientated east-west. No visible trace of an enclosing ditch or boundary was noted to the north or south. The pits were clustered with no apparent regularity within a loose east-west alignment, with three lying outside the cluster to the north and several intercutting.
A charcoal sample from one, identified as Alnus (I.L. Stuijts, pers. comm.), produced a radiocarbon date of 1410–1285 BC (Beta-117546).
2 Killiney View, 2 Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
