What is recorded here

Cist in Grange (ballintober South By.) is a cist in Grange (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. Grave 1 measured 0.56m E-W, 0.5m N-S and 0.3m high beneath a 1.45m x 0.8m capstone. It contained a bowl food vessel and scattered cremation set 2m inside the cairn perimeter at NE.

Grave 1 is a cist (int. dims 0.56m E-W; 0.5m N-S; H 0.3m) with a capstone (dims c. 1.45m x c. 0.8m) which contained a bowl food vessel and scattered cremation set into the old ground surface c. 2m inside the perimeter of the cairn (RO028-204002-) at NE. (Ó Ríordáin 1997, 43) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

A Neolithic cist burial, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, containing cremated remains and a food vessel, indicating early funerary practices and ritual deposition in the region.

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