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Flat cemetery

Kilcornan (Dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Flat cemetery, Kilcornan, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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