Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Burnellstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burnellstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49752, -7.31182
- SMR number
- WM026-107----
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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
The cist was discovered in a disused gravel quarry by the children of the landowner in May 1987. It was a rectangular stone built structure (1.0m x 0.6m), roofed by a single capstone and orientated in a north-east/ south-west direction. It contained a crouched adult inhumation with a tripartite bowl food vessel, in a good state of preservation, placed behind its shoulders and a cremation deposited on top of its legs. An adjoining stone-lined, bucket shaped pit contained the cremated remains of at least one individual.
The food vessel is now in the National Museum of Ireland and the human remains are presently being examined in the Dept. of Anatomy in U.C.C. (Bennett 1988 no. 64)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 July 2010
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.