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Cist

Mill Land, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cist, Mill Land, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Mill Land
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.50816, -7.15278
SMR number
WM020-126----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a gravel ridge, in gently undulating pasture with Riverstown River c. 120m to SW. Not depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map or on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. According to Waddell (1970, 94, 135) this is a short rectangular cist (dims. 0.5m NNE-SSW; 0.3m WNW-ESE) defined by overlapping side stones and containing a bowl food vessel and the cremated bones of an adult (NMI Reg. Nos. 1963: 43: 44). Rynne (1964, 114-7) describes it as a Bronze Age cist. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 09 July 2019

References

Rynne, E. 1964 Bronze Age Burial near Killucan, Co. Westmeath. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 3, No. 2, 114-7.

Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.

Lucas, A.T. 1966 National Museum or Ireland: Archaeological acquisitions in the year 1963. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 96, 12-13.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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