Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Derrymaquirk, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrymaquirk
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95434, -8.39437
- SMR number
- RO005-044----
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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
On flat low-lying land beside what was an inlet on the NE shore of Upper Lough Gara and close to crannog (RO005-027----). The preserved remains of an adult female and infant with the bone handle of an implement dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age was found during turf-cutting operations in 1959. (Lucas 1961, 88-9; O Floinn 1992, 71)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Lucas, A.T. 1961a National Museum of Ireland: Archaeological acquisitions in the year 1959. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 91, 43-107.
Ó Floinn, R. 1992a A bog body from Derrymaquirk and other related finds from county Roscommon. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 4, 71-2.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.