Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Earls Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Earls Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55847, -9.49951
- SMR number
- GA026-012----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At E end of Earl's Island, at extreme SW end of Lough Mask. Described in 1943 as 'A small grassy mound under a thorn tree' (Topgr. Files, NMI). Reputed to be the burial place of Edmund de Burgo, son of the Red Earl of Ulster, who was abducted and murdered by the de Stauntons in 1338. All that is visible at the spot indicated is a deep hollow near a huge boulder, apparently the results of an illegal excavation by locals some time ago.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosure1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stone1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.