Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Newtownbalregan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtownbalregan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.00929, -6.44739
- SMR number
- LH007-100----
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
Polygonal cist (L 0.9m E-W, Wth 0.7m N-S) situated on top of a small knoll overlooked by higher ground to NE and SE; discovered during ploughing in 1984. Side slabs up to a height of 0.4m, with corbelled drystone walling above this up to a height of 0.75m. Originally covered by several small slabs, with traces of slabs also forming a floor. The cist contained unburnt human bones and fragments of a possible Bowl Food Vessel. (CLAJ 1987, 274-8)
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.