1976:044 - CARRICKBALLYDOOEY td, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal Site name: CARRICKBALLYDOOEY td

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number:

Author: M. Ryan, Irish Antiquities Division, National Museum of Ireland

Site type: Cist

Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)

ITM: E 625746m, N 910089m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.937834, -7.598229

In April, 1976, a polygonal cist was investigated here. It contained the crouched burial of a young adult male accompanied by a plano-convex knife of flint. The cist was found about 25m from a large standing stone.