Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Tankardsrock, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tankardsrock
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.01427, -6.46437
- SMR number
- LH006-037----
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
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Short cist, rectangular in shape, with single slabs for capstone and floor. The cist was aligned E-W and contained a bowl food vessel and some partly cremated bone (CLAJ 1910, 325; Praehistoriche Zeitschrift 1911, 185; JRSAI 1970, 123). The cist was reconstructed in the avenue bank of Dun Dealgan Motte (LH007-118007-).
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.