Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Oughtmama, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtmama
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11686, -9.03854
- SMR number
- CL003-032015-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
A complete human jawbone with teeth was uprooted by rabbit burrowing close to the corner of the largest of the three churches at Oughtmama (CL003-032002-) in 1983 and was reburied. (Coffey 1985, 30)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 February 2018
References
Coffey T. 1985 Field notes. The Other Clare 9, 27-31.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.