Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Kilcornan (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcornan (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23634, -8.86443
- SMR number
- GA095-061----
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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
On a gentle S-facing slope within the former demesne of Kilcornan House. Discovered between 1948-50 while digging for sand on the line of an old abandoned roadway (McCaffrey 1952, 31-2, no. 39b). Three cists were found, all appear to have been short cists. One was slab-built (L 0.66m; Wth 0.25m-0.38m), aligned SSE-NNW, with a single floor slab and roofed with a capstone. It contained the crouched skeleton of a youth and a vase. The second (L/Wth 0.46m) was built in a similar manner to the first but without a floor slab. It contained cremated bone. There are no details on the third but cremated bone and sherds of a vase are associated with it. Stray finds included cremated bone and a flint scrapper and the sherd of a possible vase (Waddell 1990, 94). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.