Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Carrowlisdooaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowlisdooaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73031, -9.16587
- SMR number
- MA100-072----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On high ground, 35m ENE of barrow (MA100-071001-), in good pasture. Short, rectangular cist (L 1m; Wth 0.5m; D 0.5m) with long axis orientated E-W. Covered with a flag capstone and contained a gravel floor. First discovered c. 1850, it was examined in 1933. It contained the remains of a vase and a crouched inhumation of an adult male, with the head facing E (JGAHS 1934, 57).
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 17.
Date of upload: 5 December 2012
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.