Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Moyveela, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyveela
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25502, -8.83901
- SMR number
- GA095-152----
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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 hillock in gently undulating pastureland. A rectangular short cist was discovered within a ‘small mound’
in 1928 (Shea 1935, 182-5). It contained the contracted skeleton of a young person, probably female, and a decorated a vase; these were subsequently sent to the National Museum of Ireland. No visible surface trace of the mound survives. (Mahr 1930, 74; Waddell 1990, 94)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 November 2019
References
Shea, S. 1935 The Moyveela (Co. Galway) Skeleton. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 16, 182-5.
Mahr, A. 1930 Recent acquisitions of archaeological finds made by the National Museum, Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 60, 74.
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.