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Cist

Rush, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cist, Rush, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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