What is recorded here

Four thousand years of wind have not erased the chamber where an adult, a child and a cremated body were laid together. The cist still holds its two limestone slabs and dark peaty soil at the heart of the cairn. It is not a grand tomb, but a small stubborn box of lives, buried deep enough to survive the Burren’s relentless rain.

At the approximate centre of a cairn (CL006-044----). Excavation carried out to facilitate repairs following the disturbance of the cairn revealed this central cist (Eogan 2002). The cist had been disturbed and comprised only two limestone slabs, a southern sidestone (H c. 0.8m; T c. 0.3m) and a capstone (L c. 0.95m; T c. 0.1m) (Eogan 2002, Fig 8). It contained two fills; a basal fill indistinguishable from the cairn and an upper black peaty silt. The partial remains of an adult inhumation, a child’s scapula and a cremation deposit containing at least one adult were recovered from the upper fill. A sample of the inhumed bone from the central cist returned a Chalcolithic date (2460–2140 cal BC). There were no finds within the cist, however, a perforated dog tooth, a glass bead, a possible stone pin sharpener, a chert scraper, a flint blade and several sherds of pottery were found elsewhere in the cairn (Eogan 2002, 127). A secondary inhumed burial was also found within the cairn. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 27 July 2021

A Neolithic cist tomb, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE, significant as a burial feature within a cairn in the Burren, reflecting early funerary practices in the region.

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