What is recorded here

Marianne stopped her car on the unmarked track and walked toward the low stone ridge. She expected a boundary wall or a forgotten farmyard, but the stones formed a small chamber open to the sky. Inside lay the bones of a woman who had eaten from a clay bowl before dying, while across the chamber another person had been reduced to ash. Marianne touched the cool edge of the roof stone and imagined the hands that had placed it there, not as a scholar but as a neighbour saying goodbye.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Irregular cist of three boulders and drystone walling containing crouched inhumation of adult female with bowl food vessel at E and cremation burial at W (JRSAI 1934, 139-42).

Cist in Ballyhacket Upper is a small prehistoric stone burial chamber, likely dating to the Early Christian or Bronze Age period. Its significance lies in providing insights into early burial practices and funerary architecture in the region.

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