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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
53.12550, -9.76723
SMR number
GA110-039020-

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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

During the course of excavations in the SW part of Cutting 1 in the inner enclosure of Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----), very incomplete human skeletal remains were found 2m to the S of Structure 1 (GA110-039021-) and 0.6m to the E of the enclosing wall. Only the right forearm, wrist and hand bones of an adult were found together; part of an associated scapula was found close by. A fragment of an upper jaw recovered 1.25m to the N may be part of the same individual or those of a younger person. No grave-cut was evident. A radiocarbon date of 170 cal. BC-cal. AD 60 for the forearm provided evidence of early Iron Age activity in the fort (Cotter 2012, vol. 1, 339-42; vol. 2, 276-7). (Ó Donnabháin ibid., vol. 2, 191, 196)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 23 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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