Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Carrowntober West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowntober West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- GA084-049----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A small rectangular slab-built cist (L 0.3m; Wth 0.2m; H 0.22m) was discovered in a sand pit in 1929 in 'Curratober'. It was aligned NE-SW. It contained the unburnt bones of a child less than one-year old and a vase (Hynes 1929, 141). (Waddell 1975, 13; 1990, 92). Not precisely located.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 October 2020
References
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Waddell, J. 1975 The Bronze Age burials of County Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 34, 5-20.
Hynes, Rev. J. 1928-9 Discovery of a cist. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 14, 141.