Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Aghnaskeagh, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghnaskeagh
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06128, -6.35797
- SMR number
- LH004-032004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of six short cists (see also LH004-032002-, LH004-032005-, LH004-032006-, LH004-032007- and LH004-032008-) aligned NW-SE, found during excavations by E. E. Evans in Cairn A at Aghnaskeagh (see also LH004-032---- and LH004-032001-). These secondary burials, dating to the Bronze Age, were W and SW of the megalith.
This cist was located immediately S of one of the other cists (LH004-032002-), and Evans suggested (CLAJ 1935, 246) that it might have been an annexe or overflow for that other cist. The fill of the cist produced abundant calcined bone fragments.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 11 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.