Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Stillorgan Park, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stillorgan Park
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28650, -6.18141
- SMR number
- DU023-069----
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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
Situated at the junction of Craysfort Avenue and Craysford Woords. A cist discovered in 1954 during the clearing of stones from a rockery beside the obelisk on the grounds of St Augustine's in Stillorgan. A short cist containing an inhumation burial of a young adult female accompanied by a flint flake. The cist was rectangular in plan (L 0.92m, Wth 0.46m, H 0.47m) with its long axis aligned N-S (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 180-184).
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.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.