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Cist

Moyveela, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cist, Moyveela, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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