Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Curraboy, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraboy
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64990, -9.14848
- SMR number
- MA110-059----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1984 human bones were exposed here during ploughing. The remains were inspected on 2nd May 1984 by OPW personnel. A thigh bone, possible arm bones, fragments of rib, a shattered skull and a well preserved set of teeth were noted. The bones were scattered and displaced but appeared to have been come from an extended burial placed in a shallow pit (c. 2m NE-SW; c. 1m NW-SE). The burial appeared to be late in date, possibly Famine era.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.