What is recorded here

No visible monument exists today, but in 1868 a digging crew struck a buried chamber on the south bank of the River Liffey. Inside lay a cist burial beside a cinerary urn, another unmarked ash deposit and a food vessel, suggesting someone was remembered across death rather than forgotten. The river has since taken back the exact spot, carrying silt over the stones and leaving only a hidden line in the earth where an old life still waits to be named.

In 1868 burials were discovered in a pit on the S bank of the river Liffey (Frazer 1866-9, 336-40). The remains comprised a cist burial with a cinerary urn, an unenclosed cinerary burial and associated food vessel (Waddell 1970, 116; Kavanagh 1973, 546; Waddell 1990, 84-6). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Cist burial, likely dating to the Early Christian period. Its significance lies in the presence of a cinerary urn and associated food vessel, indicating cremation practices and funerary rituals of the time.

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