Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Moylough, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moylough
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01882, -8.69776
- SMR number
- SL038-132----
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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
In pasture, on a slight rise. Discovered in 1928 during sand quarrying and described by Morris (1929, 113-5) as a cist (L 29in [0.73m]; Wth 16in [0.4m]; D 12in [0.3m]) formed of four thin slabs with a stone floor and a covering slab. It contained cremated human bone and a corroded and shrivelled bronze halberd. The underside of the covering slab was decorated with a faint wavy band of pitting (L 3ft [0.9m]; Wth 1in [0.025m]). This short cist has not been precisely located and it is possible that it is in that part of Moylough townland which is on OS 6-inch map 43. (Waddell 1990, 133)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
References
Morris, H. 1929 Ancient graves in Sligo and Roscommon. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 59, 99-115.
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.