
What is recorded here
This site is located in a low lying area and is located on the landscaped grounds of Stepaside Golf course. A cist burial was found during sand-quarrying operations. The burial was accompanied by a Food Vessel (NMI 1927:45; 1927:64). Two other burials were found near by, one an inhumation accompanied by a Food Vessel contained in a cist. The second, a cremation, was associated with a Food Vessel (Kavanagh 1973, 545-6, Waddell 1970, 116).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 14 April 2018.
A Neolithic cist burial; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in the presence of a Food Vessel, indicating ritual deposition practices associated with early farming communities in Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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