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Dolmen

Linkardstown burial
Dolmen
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Situated on a natural ridge overlooking the Liffey Valley, inside the Chapelizod gate at Phoenix Park. Known as 'Cnoc-Maraidhe' or 'Hill of the Mariners'. In the early 19th-century a mound stood on the site. Excavations exposed the central cist containing two crouched skeletons accompanied by a shell necklace, flint…

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Situated on a natural ridge overlooking the Liffey Valley, inside the Chapelizod gate at Phoenix Park. Known as 'Cnoc-Maraidhe' or 'Hill of the Mariners'. In the early 19th-century a mound stood on the site. Excavations exposed the central cist containing two crouched skeletons accompanied by a shell necklace, flint knife and bone toggle. Four small cists were also discovered, containing cremated bones and food vessels, two of which were bowls (Wood-Martin 1895, 281, Fig.74; Waddell 1970, 115; Waddell 1990, 81). All that survives today of this cemetery mound is the central megalithic cist comprising a flat slab lying on two boulders set into concrete. There are holes in the face of the stones. Ryan (1981, 142) and Brindley and Lanting (1989-90) classify this monument as a Linkardstown-type burial of Late Neolithic date.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU018-007011

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