What is recorded here

Killerrig is a cist in County Carlow where two burial chambers and vessels were found before destruction erased them from the land. They belonged to the same locality as an earlier recorded site, suggesting a repeated human choice to lay the dead beneath that particular ground. What is gone can still be imagined: hands arranging stone, vessels placed with care, and a field that kept the shape of loss long after the chambers disappeared.

Two cists and vessels (see also CW008-006002-) were found in the same locality as that recorded at CW008-006001-, but subsequently destroyed (JRSAI 1872-3, 252). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 January 2012

A Neolithic cist tomb; its significance lies in its association with early burial practices and the presence of accompanying vessels, indicating ritual deposition.

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