What is recorded here

One chamber held two people, the other four, and the dead lay facing east as if waiting for a sunrise that never came. The living built thick stone walls around them, then covered the work with a cairn large enough to mark the field for generations. A plough cut through that memory in an instant, exposing bones and breaking the secrecy the builders had trusted. The chambers disappeared again, leaving only the shape of the event and the question of who they were.

An earlier report (NMI1938) recorded two cists containing human bones which were revealed at the edge of a cairn (CV021-075001-) during ploughing. Both were aligned NW-SE. The first (dims; 2.75m x 1m) was 'protected by three large stones, besides one huge upright at the end. There was also an inner lining of flagstones about c. 0.45m x 0.15m standing upright. At the NW of the second, (dims. 3.35m x 1.37m) there was 'a huge stone of about ten cwt weight and close to sit another of the same weight protecting the N and E sides'. Not located. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Cist in Cornadimpan Glebe is a Bronze Age burial cist, likely associated with a cairn, and is significant as an example of early funerary practices involving human remains and structured burial alignment.

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