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Cist

Townparks (Upper Dundalk By.), County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cist, Townparks, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Townparks (Upper Dundalk By.)
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
53.99585, -6.40969
SMR number
LH007-089----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

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

Discovered during the sinking of a trial pit by the Great Northern Railway in 1879 prior to the building of workshops. The site consisted of a slight hillock (max. H c. 3m). The first burial was found c. 0.6m below the surface while sinking the trial pit. In 1880 it was decided to remove the hillock completely and between fifty and sixty burials were uncovered. They were all orientated NW-SE, were at an average depth of 0.45m below the topsoil, and were laid in regularly shaped stone-lined cists. The bases of the graves appeared to have had a lining of broken crushed stone. Some of the remains were of children. No finds were recovered from the burials. (CLAJ 1952, 251-2)

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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