Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Grange (Ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (Ballintober South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72635, -8.23957
- SMR number
- RO028-204010-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Grave 13 is a cist (int. dims. 0.84 N-S; 0.57m E-W; H 0.52m) with a capstone (dims. c. 1.5m x 1.15m) which contained two bowl food vessels and a large deposit of cremated bone. It was set in the subsoil just NW of the centre of the cairn (RO028-204002-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Ó Ríordáin, A.B. 1997 A Bronze Age cemetery mound at Grange, Co. Roscommon. Journal of Irish Archaeology 8, 43-72.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.