Cist in Corroy (frenchpark By.)

Discovered c. 0.2m below the ground surface in a shallow, natural hollow (diam. c. 200m) in 1928 (Morris 1929, 99-104), but the precise location is unknown. A short rectangular cist (int. dims c. 0.65m NE-SW; c. 0.45m NW-SE; H c. 0.45m) was constructed of four thin slabs, the edges overlapping. It contained the crouched skeleton of a child with a bowl Food Vessel covered by a stone near the skull. (Waddell 1990, 130; Ó Ríordáin and Waddell 1993, 128) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010