Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Ballyglass (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73425, -8.18990
- SMR number
- RO028-195002-
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
On a N-facing slope overlooking the valley of a W-E stream. A cist containing a Bowl Food Vessel and a cremation, which may have been under a mound (RO028-195001-), were recovered in land reclamation in 1965. (Lucas 1968, 120-1; Waddell 1990,130; O Riordain and Waddell 1993, 128)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Ó Ríordáin, B. and Waddell, J. 1993 The funerary bowls and vases of the Irish Bronze Age. Galway.
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Lucas, A.T. 1968 National Museum of Ireland: archaeological acquisitions in the year 1965. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 98 (2), 93-159.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.