Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Killarecastle,rackavra, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killarecastle,rackavra
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48793, -7.60318
- SMR number
- WM024-046----
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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 pasture. According to Ó Ríordáin (1965, 223-5, Fig. 1), excavation of the monument revealed a Bronze Age cist-burial containing a food vessel and a small quantity of bone. Lucas (1968, 120-1) described that the food vessel was found in an inverted position in a small stone-lined cist along with the bone during the course of bulldozing operations. Waddell (1970, 135) describes the cist as the short rectangular type containing a Bowl type food vessel and cremated bone.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 12 July 2019
References
Lucas, A.T. 1968 National Museum of Ireland: archaeological acquisitions in the year 1965. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 98 (2), 93-159.
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Ó Ríordáin, A.B. 1965 Bronze Age Burial near Killare, Co. Westmeath. Ríocht na Mídhe 3, 3, 223-225.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.