Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Farranagan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Farranagan
- Coordinates
- 53.13151, -9.75302
- SMR number
- GA110-048001-
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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
Represented in name only on the OS 6-inch maps. The field to the N of Cnocan na mBan (hillock of the women) (see GA110-048----) is known as ‘Fearann na gCeann’ (territory of the heads) from the skulls that were dug up here following a battle between the O’Briens who are said to have slaughtered each other almost to extinction while their women watched from the hillock to the S (Robinson 1980).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 7 April 2016
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.