Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Cloghroak, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghroak
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cist Grave
- Coordinates
- 53.17576, -8.76360
- SMR number
- GA104-119----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This rectangular slab-built short cist (L 1.2m; Wth 0.7m; H 0.6m) was discovered in 1900 during gravel quarrying. It is aligned N-S and consists of four slabs roofed with a capstone. It contained the remains of two unburnt skeletons, one of which was that of an infant, the cremated bones of an adult, and two vases (McCaffrey 1952, 225, no. 137; Waddell 1975, 8; 1990, 93).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 November 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Waddell, J. 1975 The Bronze Age burials of County Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 34, 5-20.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.