Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Corrandrum, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrandrum
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40137, -8.90490
- SMR number
- GA057-087----
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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 a low E-W running esker ridge. During quarrying in 1933, a short almost rectangular slab-built cist (NE-SW; L 0.75m, Wth 0.6m, H 0.45m) was found. It contained the cremated bones of an adult, an Irish Vase, two plano-convex flint knives and a small segmented bone object. Sometime before 1933 another cist containing bones had been found c. 100m to W, also as a result of quarrying, but it was not investigated (Costello 1935, 63-6; Waddell 1975, 15-16; 1990, 93). No visible surface trace of either survives.
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.