What is recorded here

No visible chamber remains at Punchestown Great, but a small stone-lined cist was found beside the fallen standing stone before its 1934 re-erection. It held compacted clay and a pig heel bone, perhaps a later intrusion rather than an ancient offering. The new socket for the upright claimed the same ground, erasing the cist from sight.

Discovered abutting the SW end of the socket of a fallen standing stone (KD024-009001-) before its re-erection in 1934 (Leask 1937, 250-52). Described as a very small, roughly formed, stone lined cist, filled with compacted clay, it only contained a pig heel bone which was interpreted as a modern intrusion. The creation of a new secure socket to house the re-erected standing stone meant that the cist could not be preserved in situ (ibid). (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 384; Harbison 1975, 126; Weir 1980, 167) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 11 June 2012

Stone-lined cist, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, associated with a standing stone. Its proximity to a re-erected monolith suggests ritual or funerary significance in a prehistoric landscape.

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