Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
MacReary, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- MacReary
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS079-038----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Waddell (1990, 134) this was a short cist (0.61m x 0.46m) which had a floor slab and contained a pottery vessel and cremated bones. It was found c. 1948-9 when a plough struck the capstone (OPW files). The vessel was inverted over the bones and was said to be decorated with diamond like designs (ibid.). The broken vessel and bones were returned to the cist which was again covered with the capstone and back-filled with earth (ibid.). The cist has been located to Macreary townland but its exact location is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.