Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Rathnaskilloge, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnaskilloge
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15396, -7.44258
- SMR number
- WA024-051----
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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
Situated in a level landscape. A few sherds of a vase urn with incised decoration and cremated bone representing an adult and an infant were found in a cist in January 1935 and are now in the NMI. The cist was in a field bank, but only the capstone (dims 0.84m x 0.53m; T 0.2m) remained when it was investigated (Cahill and Sikora 2011). (Waddell 1970, 133; 1990, 146)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 20 March, 2012.
References
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.