What is recorded here

Stillorgan Park keeps a small stone box from before roads or churches, holding a young woman and one flint flake. She may have been young when the earth closed over her, perhaps known only to people whose names never reached us. The park still moves around that forgotten chamber, busy with life but never quite forgetting the shape of her rest.

Situated at the junction of Craysfort Avenue and Craysford Woords. A cist discovered in 1954 during the clearing of stones from a rockery beside the obelisk on the grounds of St Augustine's in Stillorgan. A short cist containing an inhumation burial of a young adult female accompanied by a flint flake. The cist was rectangular in plan (L 0.92m, Wth 0.46m, H 0.47m) with its long axis aligned N-S (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 180-184). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

A Bronze Age cist tomb, dating to approximately 2000–800 BCE. Its presence in Stillorgan indicates early burial practices in the Dublin region, reflecting the use of small stone chambers for inhumation during the prehistoric period.

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