Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Glassamucky, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glassamucky
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26024, -6.35207
- SMR number
- DU025-057001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a N facing slope with extensive views to the E, N and W. In 1978 two burials were found during removal of topsoil from a quarry (Kelly 1987-8, 73). One was a crouched inhumation accompanied by a Food Vessel and contained within a trapezoidal cist. A sample of the bone produced a date of 3765+-BP which placed it in the early Bronze age (Kelly 1998, 113-116).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 28 July 2018
References
Kelly, E.P. 1987-8 Glassamucky, cist and pit burial. Journal of Irish Archaeology 4, 73, (no. 38).
Kelly, E.P. 1998 Burials at Glassamucky, Glenasmole valley, Co. Dublin. In C. Manning (ed.), Dublin and beyond the Pale: studies in honour of Patrick Healy, 113-16. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.