County: Mayo Site name: Lissadrone East, Co. Mayo
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: —
Site type: Prehistoric and early Bronze Age graves
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 516255m, N 836106m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.266911, -9.285570
In May 1985 the National Museum received a report stating that a pit grave containing a pottery vessel had been discovered 25–30 years previously on a farm in the townland of Lissadrone East, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo.4 According to the report received, the site consisted of a small mound at the top of a hill, which was levelled by the farmer to reveal a pit containing an urn ‘covered by a pile of stones’. The only object surviving from the pit burial was a stone ‘lid’—a circular stone, quite flat on one face and uneven on the upper face, with roughly dressed sides and measuring 0.37m by 0.38m by 0.045m thick (1985:41). This had apparently been placed on top of the urn. The stone was composed of a thinly bedded sandstone local to west Mayo (identified by Dr J.S. Jackson). No further details are known, and the site was not investigated.
4. Parish of Lackan, barony of Tirawley. OS 6in. sheet 14.
