Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43006, -8.66316
- SMR number
- SL001-018001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located immediately west of Clashymore harbor on the S side of Inishmurray.
Edge-set slabs within a deep grassy hollow probably correspond to the site of a cist found in 1938 and described by Heraughty (1982, 17). The hollow is 2 m deep on the west side, but only 0.6 m on the east, where it overlooks the wave-cut rock terraces of Clashymore. Within the hollow, large, flat, edge-set slabs form the north and east sides of what may once have been a lintelled short cist. The site was examined by E Estyn Evans who was satisfied that it was a later prehistoric funerary cist; the whereabouts of an associated urn or food vessel are now unknown.
The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1998-2000 and published in:
Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.
References
Heraughty P. 1982 Inishmurray. Ancient monastic island. Dublin. (revised ed.)
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.