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Cairn - burial cairn

Kilkenny, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - burial cairn, Kilkenny, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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