Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Drumrevagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumrevagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05377, -9.15770
- SMR number
- MA039-118----
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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
A skeleton was uncovered in 1935 at this location in Drumrevagh townland when foundations were being laid for the construction of a house (NMI files /SMR file). It was reported in the Irish Independent (9th Nov. 1935) that 'The skeleton, enclosed in a box, now lies at the Garda barracks, Foxford, where daily hundreds of people come to view it.’.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 April 2020
References
NMI file - Topographical files of the National Museum of Ireland. Unpublished
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.