Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Ower (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ower (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46803, -9.15629
- SMR number
- GA041-046----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On level ground in gently undulating pastureland. Discovered c. 1939 while digging for sand, it consisted of a short rectangular slab-built cist (E-W; L 0.7m, Wth 0.4m, H c. 0.45m) roofed by a capstone set c. 0.3m below ground level. It was floored with a cobbling of small stones. At its centre was an Irish Vase full of cremated bones. The cist itself was filled with fine grey sand which contained cremated human bones at all levels. No visible surface trace survives (Raftery 1942, 75-81; Waddell 1975, 19; 1990, 94).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.