2021:060 - MONEYCARROLL, Wicklow
County: Wicklow
Site name: MONEYCARROLL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 21E0208
Author: Yvonne Whitty
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 10, Riverside Business Centre, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow
Site type: Burial
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
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.
