Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Monumental structure
Kilcommadan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcommadan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- General St. Ruths Flag
- Latest-edition OS map
- General St. Ruths Flag
- Coordinates
- 53.28714, -8.31380
- SMR number
- GA087-125----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 100m NE of a probable early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA087-126001-). Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a tiny rectangular enclosure. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 566) note that 'St. Ruth is said to have been buried in the [nearby] grave yard … where his “flag” is yet shewn, but it is said that his body was afterwards removed from it'. No visible surface trace survives. See also CBG (GA087-126003-).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.