Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Liscooly, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscooly
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.79883, -7.64499
- SMR number
- DG079-044002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On undulating agriculture land. Three short cists (DG079-044001-, DG079-044003- and DG079-044004-) and a fourth possible funerary monument were identified here in 2004. This, the latter, was investigated (Licence: 04E0505) in the same year by Shine and Sikora on behalf on the National Museum of Ireland. This potential monument comprised a large flat slab c. 3m E of the first cist (DG079-044001-), which it was suspected may have been the capstone for another burial. This stone had been moved from its original position by the bulldozer. Nonetheless it was suggested that some of the bone found in loose earth around the first cist may have originated from here (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 1. 140-152).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 February 2013
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.