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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
… a small boulder … forming the covering of a small cist … of granite stones, just sufficient in size to contain the urn'. Vessel (probably food vessel) described as 'curiously ornamented with incised markings …4 inches in height, the widest diam.eter that of the rim ... 5 inches; bottom 2 3/4 inches'. Associated with cremation, and possibly with bone object. Discovered about 1872. Two similar cists and vessels were also found in the same locality but subsequently destroyed (JRSAI 1872-3, 252).
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