Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Woodpole, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodpole
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75042, -6.98368
- SMR number
- ME010-043----
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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 was discovered in October 1997 while landscaping a garden. The cist was disturbed but the original structure (dims c. 66m x c. 64m; H 0.3m) was constructed of at least four side-slabs with an oval capstone (dims 0.75m x 0.45m; T 0.1m), and it had a hard pebble clay floor. The contents of the cist had been disturbed and only a small quantity of cremated bone representing an adult female and a neonatal were recovered in addition to 15 fragments of a shouldered bowl with poorly executed comb-impressed decoration. (Cahill 2011)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 February 2019
References
Cahill, M. 2011 3.62 Woodpole, Co. Meath. E1144. In Cahill and Sikora (eds) Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. 2 vols. Vol. 1, 378-83. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.