Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruach Na Cara
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30337, -9.91757
- SMR number
- GA076-024----
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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
Discovered during field-walking after the January/February 2014 storms (pers. comm. M. Gibbons). On a narrow stony shoreline (Wth 4-5m) above a smooth bedrock shore, c.118m almost due S of St. MacDara’s Church (GA076-020001-). Two human skulls lying 2m apart aligned on an ENE-WSW axis with the skulls apparently at E and facing S are visible. A third skull “in line” with the other two was also noted (ibid.) This is one of three locations where the storms have revealed previously unrecorded burials: see also GA076-024---- and GA076-025----.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 08 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.