What is recorded here
Discovered c. 0.2m below the ground surface in a shallow, natural hollow (diam. c. 200m) in 1928 (Morris 1929, 99-104), but the precise location is unknown. A short rectangular cist (int. dims c. 0.65m NE-SW; c. 0.45m NW-SE; H c. 0.45m) was constructed of four thin slabs, the edges overlapping. It contained the crouched skeleton of a child with a bowl Food Vessel covered by a stone near the skull. (Waddell 1990, 130; Ó Ríordáin and Waddell 1993, 128)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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