Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Collierstown (duleek Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Collierstown (duleek Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64473, -6.34462
- SMR number
- ME027-029001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the E end of the E-W ridge of Bellewstown, and in a low N-S ridge just W of mound (ME027-029----). A short rectangular cist was found c. 1890, when it was reputed that an urn “of fairly large size… and elaborately ornamented, containing burnt bones was found.’ The cist was still extant in 1933 and measured c. 137cm x 127cm overall, with the main axis aligned N-S (NMI file). It is no longer extant. The ring-ditch (ME027-110----) is c. 50m to the E. (Waddell 1970, 126; 1990, 123)
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 15 February 2019
References
NMI file - Topographical files of the National Museum of Ireland. Unpublished
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.