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Burial

Turoe, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Turoe, 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
Turoe
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.25260, -8.57477
SMR number
GA097-150004-

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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

Within the ‘Rath of Feewore’ (GA097-150001-). During the course of an excavation carried out by Raftery (1944, 23-52) an incomplete extended female burial was found in the NW quadrant of the interior. The lower portion of the skeleton was missing as a result of previous disturbance of the site by quarrying. No grave goods were found and the skeleton was protected by a cist-like arrangement of stones around its sides and head (ibid., 28, 30, 46-8).
A slightly charred fragment of a human skull was also found in this quadrant and a deposit of bones was found in the NE quadrant (ibid., 48-9).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 3 August 2018

References

Raftery, J. 1944d The Turoe stone and the rath of Feerwore. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 74, 23-52.

Nearby in the register

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

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