Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Huntingdon, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Huntingdon
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52900, -7.17751
- SMR number
- WM020-078----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 on SSW-facing slope, in pasture and overlooking a low-lying marshy area. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1970 as no surface remains visible. A small mound had been noted to the immediate S of Huntingdon House (NMI). Sometime prior to 1967, gravel quarrying in the vicinity of this mound revealed a cist containing a crouched skeleton (Waddell 1970, 134). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 05 July 2019
References
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.