What is recorded here

Cist in Slievenaglasha: a small rectangular stone chamber set upright inside a cairn in County Clare, Ireland. Westropp believed treasure-hunters had opened it, though no certain account survives. The missing west stone and crude walling suggest the chamber was entered, disturbed or rebuilt before anyone recorded it.

Situated in the NE centre of a cairn (CL010-064028-). This rectangular stone-filled cist (min. 0.85m WNW-ESE; min. 0.92m NNE-SSW) is defined by limestone slabs set upright on their long edges: longer sidestones at the N (L 0.7m; min. H 0.4m; T 0.05m) and S (L 0.85m; min. H 0.5m; T 0.1m), with a transverse endstone (L 0.77m; H 0.45m) set between them near their E ends. The W endstone is not visible. Crude drystone walling marks a continuation of the N wall of the cist to the WNW. Westropp (1913, 249) considered this cist to have been opened by treasure-hunters. The following images have been uploaded: CL010-064081-_01.jpg View of cist from SE CL010-064081-_02.jpg Also from SE CL010-064081-_03.jpg View from W Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 18 April 2023

A rectangular stone-filled cist, likely Bronze Age in date, associated with a cairn; such cists were commonly used for inhumation burials and are significant for understanding early funerary practices in the region.

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