Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland
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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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
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.