Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Park (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Park (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37783, -9.00629
- SMR number
- GA069-034----
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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
In a gravel hillock in gently undulating countryside. Discovered in 1934 during quarrying, it consisted of a short slab-built rectangular cist (NE-SW; L 0.9m, Wth 0.45m, H 0.5m), with a cobbled floor and roofed with a capstone. It contained the crouched skeleton of an adult male lying on its left side with the head towards NE end. Only a slight hollow and some narrow flagstones mark the site (Shea 1936a, 24-33; Waddell 1975, 19-20; 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.