Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Palmerstown, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Palmerstown
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28191, -8.83003
- SMR number
- GA083-069001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A portion of a human skull, some animal bone and burnt stone was found in a disturbed context within 10m of a fulacht fia (GA083-069----) (information from Prof. Rynne). They are now in the National Museum of Ireland.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.