Cist

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated to the NE of the junction of Beech Park Grove and South Park Drive. A short rectangular cist formed of four upright granite slabs (L 0.63m; Wth 0.4m) aligned NW-SE which was found at Deansgrange in 1965 (Ó Ríordáin 1968, 122). It had a paved floor and contained unburnt fragments of two adult skeletons (Waddell 1970, 115). A roofstone from this grave was dug up during house construction at the rear of 14 Beech Park Grove (Waddell 1990, 42, Cahill & Sikora 2011,174-175).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

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.

Ó Ríordáin, A.B. 1968 Food vessels in Irish passage graves. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 98, 164-5.

Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.

Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.