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Cist

Knockbrack (Gorey By.), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cist, Knockbrack, County Wexford, 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
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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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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 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

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

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