Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Hempstown Commons, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hempstown Commons
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20175, -6.50969
- SMR number
- KD020-016----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1937, the discovery of a cist in a sand pit in Hempstown Commons was reported but upon investigation it was found that it had been opened sometime previously and its contents were much disturbed. The rectangular cist (dims. L 1.06m NE-SW; Wth 0.44m; D 0.61m) had three sides formed by single slabs set on edge and the fourth was of dry stone walling covered by a flat slab. It was covered by a large subrectangular capstone (L 1.34m; Wth 1.02m) and contained the fragmentary remains of the crouched skeleton of an adult female lying on her right side and possibly accompanied by a ceramic vessel and small pieces of chert and ‘ochreous pebbles’. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 1, 221-23) A second cist (KD020-015001-) lies c. 300m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.