Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Dillonsdown, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dillonsdown
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18917, -6.53165
- SMR number
- WI005-001----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the NE edge of a small sand ridge in undulating terrain. A bowl and unburnt bones found in 1934 in a 'passage' (presumably a cist) of small boulders possibly under a small cairn. The site is now within a substantial sand quarry. (Waddell 1990, 160; Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 1, 654-6)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 24 July 2012
References
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.