Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Killerrig, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killerrig
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.84202, -6.79331
- SMR number
- CW008-006001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
… a small boulder … forming the covering of a small cist … of granite stones, just sufficient in size to contain the urn'. Vessel (probably food vessel) described as 'curiously ornamented with incised markings …4 inches in height, the widest diam.eter that of the rim ... 5 inches; bottom 2 3/4 inches'. Associated with cremation, and possibly with bone object. Discovered about 1872. Two similar cists and vessels were also found in the same locality but subsequently destroyed (JRSAI 1872-3, 252).
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Knights Hospitallersunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.