Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Newford, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newford
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29183, -8.75359
- SMR number
- GA084-101----
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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 low-lying reclaimed pastureland. In the summer of 1828 a local farmer pointed out 'an old Cist' to one of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland surveyors in the area. He had come across it 35 years previously. The cist was overground rather than underground and when opened it contained a crouched burial and an earthenware vase (Anon. 1928, 79). No visible surface trace survives. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 28)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 November 2019
References
Anon. 1928-9 Notes: Bronze age burial. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 14, 79.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.