What is recorded here
No visible chamber, no chamber at all. A cist is a box built for one body or a few bodies, not a room for wandering. The measurement and the missing floor do not create a chamber; they expose the limit of what is known.
Embedded in the top of a grass-covered cairn (CL010-064063-), this cist (1.84m E-W; 1m N-S) is defined on three sides by slabs set on edge: longer sidestones at the N (min. L 1.6m; H 0.5m; T 0.06m) and S (L 1.3m; H 0.55m; T c. 0.07m), and a shorter endstone (L 0.95m; T c. 0.08m) at the E. The heavily overgrown W endstone (Wth 0.25m) lies flat. There is a loose flat-lying slab in the W interior of the cist.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL010-064084-_01.jpg View of cist from N
CL010-064084-_02.jpg View from W
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 22 May 2023
Cist in Tullycommon is a small stone burial chamber, likely dating to the Early Christian or medieval period, associated with a cairn. Its presence indicates a local funerary tradition, though its wider archaeological significance is limited by the lack of detailed context or artifacts.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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