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Burial

Derrymaquirk, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Derrymaquirk, County Roscommon, 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
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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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)
  • 1811 · 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

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

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

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