Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linkardstown burial
Linkardstown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Linkardstown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.78294, -6.89498
- SMR number
- CW012-017----
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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
Polygonal cist constructed mainly on old ground surface, covered by low mound (diam.. c. 25m) of yellow clay with 'kerb' of smaller stones. Cist had multiple side stones and two capstones; contained a disarticulated inhumation of an adult, sherds of three necked vessels, and polished stone axehead. Discovered during ploughing and excavated in 1944. (JRSAI 1944, 61-2)
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.