Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Punchestown Great, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Punchestown Great
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19184, -6.62853
- SMR number
- KD024-009002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered abutting the SW end of the socket of a fallen standing stone (KD024-009001-) before its re-erection in 1934 (Leask 1937, 250-52). Described as a very small, roughly formed, stone lined cist, filled with compacted clay, it only contained a pig heel bone which was interpreted as a modern intrusion. The creation of a new secure socket to house the re-erected standing stone meant that the cist could not be preserved in situ (ibid). (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 384; Harbison 1975, 126; Weir 1980, 167)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 11 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.