Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Halverstown (Kilcullen ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Halverstown (Kilcullen ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09030, -6.76682
- SMR number
- KD028-055----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
In 1938, a short rectangular cist (L c. 0.6m; Wth c. 0.38m; H 0.46m) was found in a sand pit. It contained the cremated remains of an adult female, a foetus and three teeth of a year-old child. (Price 1938, 293-4; Waddell 1970, 119)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 14 May 2013
References
Price, L. 1938 Miscellanea – Cist Burials in Co. Kildare, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 68, 293-4.
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.