What is recorded here

Indicated is a cist burial site beneath Stepaside Golf course in County Dublin, where sand quarrying exposed chambers holding Food Vessels and nearby cremated remains. The dead likely expected hospitality in whatever world followed breathing, placing warm sustenance beside transformed flesh. Men swing golf clubs above that forgotten generosity, unknowing participants in an old transaction between the living and the departed.

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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