Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Rush, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rush
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cairn called Giants Mill
- Coordinates
- 53.53280, -6.08524
- SMR number
- DU008-013002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Two cist burials were found in the cairn of a passage tomb (DU008-013001-) and a third lay W of the kerbstones (Newenham 1838, 247; Ó Ríordáin 1968, 165). The cist at the N end of the cairn contained a food vessel and skeletal remains, the cist at the E contained a food vessel and cremation. The cist burial outside the cairn contained a human skull (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 176-180).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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.
Newenham, R.N. 1837 Tumulus or barrow, near Rush, Co. Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 1, 247-9.
Ó Ríordáin, A.B. 1968 Food vessels in Irish passage graves. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 98, 164-5.
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.