Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Dunleckny, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunleckny
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.71573, -6.95436
- SMR number
- CW016-099----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered in 1955 during ground disturbance and subsequently excavated by Breandán Ó Ríordáin (NMI). Two inhumation burials were uncovered, one in a short cist (L 0.80m; Wth 0.52m wide; H 0.32m) and the second underneath a slab. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 1, 68-71).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 16 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.