Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Timolin, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Timolin
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98886, -6.81246
- SMR number
- KD036-036----
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5 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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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 1981, a short rectangular cist (0.75m NW-SE; 0.35m NE-SW; H 0.44m), composed of four rectangular slabs set on edge and covered by a large suboval capstone (1.6m by 1.15m) was discovered during ploughing. It contained the disarticulated inhumation of an adult male accompanied by a complete tripartite bowl and sherds of a bipartite bowl. A collagen sample was radiocarbon dated to 3700±30 BP, which calibrates to 2200-1980. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 1, 227-31)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 11 February 2013
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
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.