What is recorded here

Flat cemetery in Misterin, County Wexford, is known from repeated cist finds in one field, including grey ashes and two pygmy cups taken from a small cist disturbed in December 1888. The field may have stood beside the moated site at Tomgarrow, joining several buried vessels into one unusual death place rather than a single lucky find.

In December 1888 a workman disturbed a small cist in Misterin that contained grey ashes and two pygmy cups (Ffrench 1889-90) that are now in the National Museum of Ireland (Kavanagh 1977, 89-90). At the time it was recalled that a similar cist had been discovered in the same field c. 50 years previously. Fragments of an Enlarged Food Vessel Urn were found in a cist in 1931 in the same field according to newspaper reports (Irish Independent, 06/06/1931 and 08/06/1931; Irish Times, 08/06/1931), and the fragments are now in the National Museum of Ireland. The find spots are unknown now (Waddell 1990, 157), but Ffrench states that the 1888 discovery was close to a rectangular earthwork, probably the moated site at Tomgarrow (WX030-064----). If they were located close to each other they could constitute a flat cemetery. Comiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 August, 2012

A Neolithic cist burial; significant as an early recorded tomb with associated pottery now in the National Museum of Ireland.

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