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
- LH004-032007-
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 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-, LH004-032004-, LH004-032005-, LH004-032006- 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 (L 1m, Wth 0.76m, D 0.56m) was covered by 0.27m of cairn material, and contained a mixture of bone fragments and disturbed material from the later smelting activity.
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.