Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Kilkenny, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkenny
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42656, -8.12615
- SMR number
- RO051-010002-
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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 gentle E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. A cairn (diam. 10m; H 0.9m) which was disturbed in land reclamation during the 1950s revealed a long cist (RO051-010001-) (dims 1.65m N-S; 0.55m E-W; D 0.5m) defined by stone slabs with a slab floor. Fragments of a cremation and of a bowl Food Vessel were recovered in excavation by J. Raftery (Raftery1960-1; Waddell 1990, 130-1; Ó Ríordáin and Waddell 1993, 129). The cist and grass-covered cairn (dims 12m NW-SE; 11m NE-SW; max. H 0.7m) are still visible.
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.
Raftery, J. 1960-61 A long stone cist in county Roscommon. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 29, 74-7.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.