What is recorded here

Under the round tower at Timahoe, a Bronze Age person was buried inside a triangular cist built from three upright flags and closed with top and bottom stones. The discovery shows that the tower rose later beside an older sacred place, not on empty ground. The dead person may have belonged to the field, the water or the local lineage now forgotten. The tower and the cist still mark the same chosen spot, separated only by centuries.

Bronze Age burial discovered under or in the vicinity of the round tower (LA018-031005-) of Timahoe (Feehan 1983, 402). An urn found near Timahoe, Co. Laois containing cremated bones was found in a triangular cist, formed by three upright flags with a flag at top and bottom (JRSAI 1849-51, 139: Waddell 1990, 105). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Bronze Age cist burial; dates to the period of 2000–700 BCE. Its significance lies in the association with a round tower and the presence of a triangular cist, indicating early funerary practices in the region.

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