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
- 53.18945, -6.61836
- SMR number
- KD024-057----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1981, a trapezoidal shaped short stone cist (dims. L 0.83m N-S; Wth 0.6m; D 0.6m) was discovered when a field was being harrowed. It was composed of four substantial slabs set on edge, covered by a suboval capstone (L 1.98m; Wth 1.4m; T 0.18m). It contained two crouched, unburnt burials (a young adult female and a young adult male) and a later deposit of cremated bones from two individuals, together with some charcoal, but no grave goods (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 1, 224-7)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 July 2012
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.