What is recorded here

Haynestown holds two cists beside a possible church and graveyard on a steep pasture ridge overlooking County Kildare. One appeared around 1870 with a skeleton inside a slab-lined chamber, while the second emerged in 1982 for excavation. They mark a place where burial, worship and memory may have tangled together long before the fields took shape.

Two cists were found; one (KD019-009----), was uncovered c. 1870 and was described by Fitzgerald (1909-11, 104) as a 'slab-lined chamber which contained a skeleton'. The second (KD019-058----), discovered in the same general area in 1982, was excavated by Manning (1985-6, 484-91). Both cists were in the immediate vicinity of the site of a possible church (KD019-026001-), graveyard (KD019-026002-) and enclosure (KD019-026003-). Near the S end of a narrow but moderately steep-sided pasture ridge with a commanding view over the surrounding countryside. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Cist in Haynestown is a small, slab-lined burial chamber, likely dating to the Early Christian or medieval period. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early burial practices, though limited contextual information restricts broader archaeological interpretation.

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