Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Kilgobbin, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgobbin
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.25913, -6.21244
- SMR number
- DU025-017003-
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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 to the N of Kilgobbin Road. A cist was noted by Rev. George Goring Cuthbert in 1835. A human skeleton enclosed in a cist was unearthed in the immediate vicinity of Kilgobbin castle (Leslie 1934).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 8 July 2018
References
Leslie, J. B. 1934 A History of Kiltiernan and Kilgobbin
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Innunder 1 mi
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.