Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Lug, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lug
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30985, -7.47942
- SMR number
- OF009-039----
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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
Disturbed cist which was discovered c. 1950 by local farmer containing a collection of burnt human bones and had according to local information contained an 'urn'. Not visible at ground level. Nearby cemetery cairn (OF009-036----) excavated by Duignan (1935) located to the N.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.