Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Crannagh (Kiltartan ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crannagh (Kiltartan ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Scartnamarve Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Scortnamarve Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.10696, -8.85115
- SMR number
- GA122-067----
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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
In pastureland on the S-facing side of a low hill. This roughly rectangular burial ground (25.2m NNW-SSE; 14.7m WSW-ENE), which is heavily overgrown with hazel bushes, is delimited by a low field boundary. Burials are marked by small randomly placed grave-markers (av. H 0.33m; base Wth 0.34m; top Wth 0.13m; T 0.1m).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 31 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.