Ashleypark Burial Mound

Ashleypark Burial Mound is a passage tomb and National Monument in the townland of Ashleypark, County Tipperary, Ireland.[1][2]

Ashleypark Burial Mound
Native name
Irish: Dumha Pháirc Ashley
Location of Ashleypark Burial Mound in Ireland
Typepassage tomb
LocationAshleypark, Nenagh,
County Tipperary, Ireland
Coordinates52.933888°N 8.188852°W / 52.933888; -8.188852
Elevation89 m (292 ft)
Height5 m (16 ft)
Builtc. 3350 BC
Official nameAshleypark Burial Mound (Cist)
Reference no.573

Location

Ashleypark Burial Mound is located 2.1 km (1.3 mi) west of Ardcroney, 1 km north of Ashleypark House and Lake Ourna.

History

Ashleypark Burial Mound dates to the Neolithic: radiocarbon dating indicates a calendar date of c. 3350 BC for the burial in the chamber of an infant.[3] The inner end of the structure contained an adult and child, cattle bones,[4] a bone point, some chert flakes and Neolithic pottery, including sherds bearing channelled decoration. It lay until recently in an ancient oak forest.[2] The site was damaged by bulldozing in 1980.[5]

Description

The mound is described as a Linkardstown-type cist but may be a simple passage grave. It consists of a round mound encircled by two low wide banks with internal ditches giving an overall diameter of 90 m (100 yd). The inner mound is 26 m (30 yd) in diameter with a cairn core covered in clay.

The megalith is trapezoidal in shape, 5m long and narrowing from 2.3m wide at the SE to 1.3 m at the NW (open) end. It was built around a limestone erratic which serves as a floorstone.[6]

References
  1. "megalithomania: Ashley Park (Tipperary) :: Passage Tomb :: Visit notes".
  2. Manning, Conleth; O'Sullivan, V. R.; Kaar, G. F.; Curtin, W. A.; McCormick, Finbar; Kennan, P. S.; Collins, J.; Cooney, G.; Brindley, A. L.; Lanting, J. N.; Mook, W. G. (1 January 1985). "A Neolithic Burial Mound at Ashleypark, Co. Tipperary". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C. 85C: 61–100. JSTOR 25506126.
  3. Cooney, Gabriel (27 November 2014). Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816531141 – via Google Books.
  4. Flanagan, Laurence (29 October 1998). Ancient Ireland: Life Before the Celts. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. ISBN 9780717163670 – via Google Books.
  5. "Ashley Park".
  6. "Ashleypark, Passage Tomb, Co. Tipperary".
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