01.01.07
Collierstown National Monument under threat
- Multi-period burials at Collierstown
http://m3motorway.ie/Archaeology/Section2/Collierstown1/, which Newman, Fenwick and Bhreatnach say is a national monument, that was not dealt with by the EIS. But this evidence was excluded from the case.
This is a burial site, with many graves in rectangle shape, edged with stone slabs. They appeared to be children’s graves.
The NRA says:
“In some cases, these may have been the burials of the earliest Christians, during the Iron Age / Early Christian transition. It is also interesting that these graves are often placed on or close-to Bronze Age or Iron Age burial mounds or standing stones, suggesting that communities sought to establish a link with the ancestors at a time of social and ideological change.”
