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Cist

Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cist, Monasterboice, 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
Monasterboice
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
0300-0400
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.77788, -6.41796
SMR number
LH021-062005-

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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

A short cist, containing a Cordoned Urn and porcellanite axe, was discovered in 1878 c. 1m below the floor level of smaller church (LH021-062003-) at Monasterboice (Hasse 1892, 145-50, fig. 1; CLAJ 1931, 332-4).

The above 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: 17 July 2007

References

Gogin, L. S. 1931 Pottery in County Louth. The Monasterboice Burial. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 7, 3, 331-4.

Hasse, Rev. L. 1892 An Urn-burial on the site of Monasterboice, Co. Louth. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 22, 145-50.

Nearby in the register

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

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