Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Laheen, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laheen
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.53392, -8.14023
- SMR number
- DG103-065----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A cist (c. 0.76m x 0.76m; D 0.6m), described as 'a short cist of Bronze Age type', was found at approximately this location in 1966, but was destroyed before it could be fully recorded. A flint thumbnail scraper was recovered from the cist (NMI; Lucas 1969, 96). In 1964 a pit burial (DG103-064----) was found c. 180m to N.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of revised upload: 6 December 2017
References
Lucas, A. T. 1969 National Museum of Ireland: archaeological acquisitions in the year 1966. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 99, 93-115.
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.