Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Turoe, County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.