Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Wells, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wells
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cist (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.69350, -6.98542
- SMR number
- CW016-037----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Three conjoined rectangular cists, orientated approximately N-S. Cist 1: inhumation with bowl food vessel, Cist 2 : 'urn' and cremation, Cist 3: inhumed bones. Excavated in 1884 (JRSAI 1887-8, 491-4; 1970, 109).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.