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Slab-lined burial

Dubhoileán Mór, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Slab-lined burial, Dubhoileán Mór, County Mayo, 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
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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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)
  • 1841 · 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

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

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

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