Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Mill Land, County Westmeath, Ireland
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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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 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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.