What is recorded here

Yes. An adult lay face up in a narrow stone box, head west, feet east, waiting for the wall builders to break the ground above. The dead person had already chosen the direction of the living world, perhaps toward the sea or the road that cuts through Dromkeen East today. The house stands over the gesture, ordinary and unaware, while the cist keeps its part of the bargain: a body, a direction, and a place for the direction to point.

In 1985, in the course of building a wall, two stone-lined graves (KE015-028----, KE015-028001-) c. 1m apart were accidentally discovered in the front garden of a private house. A rescue excavation was undertaken by the Office of Public Works. This eastern grave, c. 45cm below ground level, consisted of a rectangular cist (L 2.05m; Wth 0.5m) lined by four and seven side stones on the N and S sides respectively with the remains of two capstones (T 0.35m) at the W and E ends. Oriented E-W, there was one upright closing the grave at each end. The grave contained an extended skeleton, lying on its back with the head to W. (Bennett 1986, 151-65) Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 19 December 2013

Cist in Dromkeen East is a small, stone-lined burial structure, likely dating to the Early Christian or medieval period. Its discovery provides insight into local burial practices and domestic or ecclesiastical contexts in the region.

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