Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Slab-lined burial
Dubhoileán Mór, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dubhoileán Mór
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07447, -10.16935
- SMR number
- MA033A003003-
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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
Located immediately to S of a church (MA033A003004-), in the SE quadrant of a cashel (MA033A003001-), on Duvillaun More Island.
Henry (1937, 272) recorded this as ‘a long rectangular grave which local tradition calls ‘the Tomb of the Saint.’ It consists of a rectangular area (2.35m E-W; 1.05m N-S) defined by a number of thin upright slabs (L 0.5-0.93m; H 0.2-0.25), set on edge. The long N and S sides are gapped, with only a single long slab (L 0.85m on S side, 0.93m on N side) in situ on each side. Most of the slabs barely protrude above the sod. A cross slab (MA033A003002-) stands at the W end.
Attached image:
MA033A003003-_01 Low slabs outline the grave at foot of cross-slab (MA003A003002-). Viewed from E.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
References
Henry, F. 1937 Early Christian slabs and pillar stone in the west of Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 67, 265-279.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.