Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Knockbrack (gorey By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack (gorey By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73681, -6.38024
- SMR number
- WX002-066----
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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 the valley of a N-S section the Blackwater Stream, close to its source and with the stream c. 150m to the NE. A cist constructed of siltstone slabs (dims. 0.9m x 0.6m) with a stone floor was uncovered in ploughing during 1995, when it was excavated by the NMI. It contained a tripartite Bowl Food Vessel, but there was no evidence of a burial deposit. (Cahill 1995, 88, No. 276; Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 1, 594-6)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 March, 2012
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Cahill, M. 1996 Knockbrack. Cist Burial. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1995: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 88, No. 276. Wordwell. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.