Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Slab-lined burial
Moig, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moig
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.54985, -9.09317
- SMR number
- LI019-093001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered in 1952 when enclosure (LI019-093----) was being levelled. Described as 'cist with skeleton … 130cm by 50cm and 40cm deep' (NMI). According to local information the enclosure was known locally as "the killeen" and used as a famine burial ground.
An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, 100-102.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 15 August 2012
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.