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Slab-lined burial

Moig, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Slab-lined burial, Moig, County Limerick, 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
Moig
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.54985, -9.09317
SMR number
LI019-093001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

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

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

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