A recent study conducted by Madeleine Murray (researcher and tutor at University College Dublin) has resulted in the classification and cataloguing of 798 bone pin fragments from Irish Neolithic contexts. One specific group identified is the conical headed bone pin, an element of the Linkardstown burial tradition (Raftery 1974; Manning 1985) otherwise known as the Individual burial or Single burial tradition (Herity 1982). This site type is considered to be a moiety of the late to final Neolithic phase in Ireland. The plethora of bone pin objects still existing in the archaeological record are an intrinisic element of the Irish Neolithic narrative and testimony to the highly skilled craftsman and his ritual beliefs.