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Cist

Ballinvally, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cist, Ballinvally, County Meath, 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
Ballinvally
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.75010, -7.12039
SMR number
ME009-060001-

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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)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

This is one of two cists within 1.2m of each other in a barrow (ME009-060----) in 1935. (Cist I; L 0.91m, Wth 0.76m,D 0.46m). It had no capstone (Shee-Twohig 2001, 117). (Raftery 2011 346)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of revision: 10 July 2007

References

Raftery, J. 2011 3:56 Ballinvally, Co. Meath, E1127. in Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, vol. 1, 345-8. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.

Shee Twohig, E. 2001 Change and Continuity: post passage tomb ceremonial near Lougcrew, Co. Meath. Revue archéologique de l'Ouest, Supplement No. 9, 113-24.

Nearby in the register

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

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