Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Muggaunagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muggaunagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cist Graves
- Coordinates
- 53.18159, -8.90185
- SMR number
- GA103-145----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. This flat cemetery is defined by an irregular unenclosed area (23m N-S; 19.7m E-W) within which at least six slab-lined graves (L c. 1.2m; Wth c. 0.6m), aligned E-W, are visible. The monument is partially obscured by weeds and bushes. (McCaffrey 1952, 34, 199, no. 102; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 317)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.