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Cist

Labbacallee, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cist, Labbacallee, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Labbacallee
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.17417, -8.33452
SMR number
CO027-169----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Found during excavation (Leask and Price 1936, 77-101) of portico area of wedge tomb (CO027-086---). 'At the western end of the monument ...we found an arrangment of slabs which appeared to form a cist' (ibid. 90). Some unburnt bones and two 'very small pieces of what appeared to be a food vessel' (ibid.) were recovered; 'unclassifiable' according to O'Ríordáin and Wadell (1993, 94). Two apparent slab sockets were noted c. 2m further N, one of which contained 'a fragment of the rim of a decorated pot' (Leask and Price 1936, 90), leading the excavators to speculate that this may have been a second cist.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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