Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Iorras Beag Thiar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Iorras Beag Thiar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37789, -9.96909
- SMR number
- GA063-025----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
This burial was exposed at a depth of 1.1m from the top of the eroding dunes along the N face of a former rocky island that is now part of the tombola at Cuan an Mhada/Dog’s Bay. It was orientated N-S with the head to the S and it appears to have been laid on its back in an extended position. No grave cut was apparent and the burial appeared to have been placed on a deposit of dark soil and then covered with sand. The fusion of the skull bones suggested that the remains were those of a mature adult, possible a female (information from the National Museum of Ireland, February 2016).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 October 2016
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.