County: Kildare Site name: PUNCHESTOWN GREAT
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: E.P. Kelly, NMI
Site type: Cist
Period/Dating: Other
ITM: E 692730m, N 715130m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.178554, -6.612770
The cist was trapezoidal in plan and built of four inclined stone slabs covered by a large capstone. It contained two crouched inhumations and a deposit of cremated bone. The latter appears to have been deposited later than the inhumations.
