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Burial

Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Cill Mhuirbhigh, 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
Cill Mhuirbhigh
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.12551, -9.76723
SMR number
GA110-039015-

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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

This burial (identified as F3047f) was found on the E side of a bedrock hollow (see GA110-039003-), at a spot where it had been quarried away to make a box-like rectangular grave (Wth 0.35m; D 0.23m). The grave contained the skeleton of a neonate, placed with its head at the W end. The burial was compacted and, despite some root damage, was relatively intact. There was no trace of any covering slab and no grave-goods were found. A radiocarbon date yielded a date of 770-410 cal. BC. A linear stone boundary uncovered running NE-SW across the hollow to the S of the burial may pre-date it or, alternatively, it may have been a fence that marked off the burial area (Cotter 2012, vol. 1, 329-30). (Ó Donnabháin 2012, vol. 2, 189-90, 196)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 22 June 2020

References

Cotter, C. 2012 The western stone forts project. Excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta. 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd.

Ó Donnabháin, B. 2012 Human remains. In C. Cotter, The western stone forts project. Excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta. Vol. 2, 189-96. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd.

Nearby in the register

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

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