Cist in Burnellstown

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

Cist in Burnellstown is a small, rectangular stone-built burial cist, likely dating to the Early Christian or Early Medieval period. Its orientation and construction suggest a local funerary tradition, though its wider archaeological significance remains limited due to lack of contextual finds or precise dating evidence.