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Cist

Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cist, Enniscorthy, 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
Enniscorthy
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.51193, -6.56611
SMR number
WX020-030----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a S-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge overlooking the NE-SW River Slaney with the river c. 270m to the S. A rectangular cist (int. dims. 0.6m x 0.4m; D 0.5m) with a stone floor and a single lintel (dims. 1.1m x 0.85m; T 0.3m) was accidentally discovered in 1975 and excavated. It contained the cremation of a juvenille and a vase food vessel. The human remains produced a C14 date range of 2140-1910 BC. The area is now developed as housing on the N outskirts of Enniscorthy. (Raftery 2011; Waddell 1990, 155)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 31 May, 2012

References

Raftery, J. 2011 3.91 Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. In M. Cahill and M. Sikora (eds) Breaking ground, finding graves – reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 571-76. Dublin. Wordwell.

Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.

Nearby in the register

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

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