Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Rathmore (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore (ballintober South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69419, -8.19375
- SMR number
- RO035-038----
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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 gently undulating SE-facing landscape. Cremated bone representing an adult male was discovered with a Bowl Food Vessel within a trapezoidal cist (dims 0.58m N-S; 0.43m E-W; H 0.5m) in April 1978. The cist had had single stones on the side-walls, which leaned to the E. It had a single roofstone (dims 0.63m x 0.63m; T 0.15m) and the floor was paved with four stones. (Waddell 1990, 131; Ó Ríordáin and Waddell 1993, 129; Raftery 2011).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 March 2012
References
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Raftery, B. 2011a 3.66 Rathmore, Co. Roscommon, E1152. In M. Cahill and M. Sikora (eds) Breaking ground, finding graves – reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, vol. 1, 423-8.
Ó Ríordáin, B. and Waddell, J. 1993 The funerary bowls and vases of the Irish Bronze Age. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.