Cist in Mill Land, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Situated on a gravel ridge, in gently undulating pasture with Riverstown River c. 120m to SW. Not depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map or on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. According to Waddell (1970, 94, 135) this is a short rectangular cist (dims. 0.5m NNE-SSW; 0.3m WNW-ESE) defined by overlapping side stones and containing a bowl food vessel and the cremated bones of an adult (NMI Reg. Nos. 1963: 43: 44). Rynne (1964, 114-7) describes it as a Bronze Age cist. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM020-126

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