Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Kilbarry (Duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbarry (Duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cinerary Urn (Site of) (found 1932)
- Coordinates
- 52.20853, -8.78814
- SMR number
- CO024-018----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered during limestone quarrying in June 1932, much disturbed by workmen before investigation. Encrusted Urn, inverted over cremated remains on small flagstone (D 0.175m) (Doody 1986, Cork No. 34). Quartz crystal associated with burial. Form of burial unclear; Power (1933, 222) described 'a very rude cist composed of kerbstones not more than seven inches high and laid on edge'; Waddell (1990, 61) surmises that burial was 'pit protected by a few stones'. Urn described by Kavanagh (1973, 537): 'rim bevelled outwardly...ornamented with...criss-cross hatching; internally decoration...in two tiers with four rows of alternating short oblique lines; externally decoration has ...row of hollow impressions [beneath rim] followed by...herring-bone pattern; 3cm below rim...small hollow discs...separated by applied ribs...terminated by indented cordon...at maximum diameter of vessel; ornamentation continues with [repeated pattern of] applied [oblique] ribs...alternating between cordons'. Both Kavanagha (ibid.) and Doody (ibid.) mistakingly locate site in a Kilbarry townland on Cork OS 6" sheet 36.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.