Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Bregaun, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bregaun
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40183, -7.35336
- SMR number
- KK034-057----
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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
On a pronounced knoll, on a terrace on the E slopes of Kilmacoliver Hill, overlooking a small river valley. The river, located c. 70m to the E, flows S to join the Pil River. The knoll may be entirely natural or could have been augmented to accommodate the cist. The cist was uncovered during ploughing in October 2022.
A roughly rectangular stone-lined cist (L 0.4-0.55m; Wth 0.37-0.5m; D 0.31-0.34m) with long axis aligned NW-SE. The four sides of the cist are formed with single slabs set on edge, while a slender upright stone fills a small gap in the S corner. The slabs are conglomerate except the NE side, which appears to be slate. At the SE end and S corner two thin stones over sail the edge of the cist and presumably supported a capstone, however, all evidence for the former roof is now missing.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.