Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Carrownaglearagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaglearagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85809, -8.12550
- SMR number
- RO017-219----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In 1996 drainage works on the W-E Carrow River just before it enters Lough Laure uncovered a human skull which was acquired by NMI (1996: 34). Subsequently, in July 1998, further human remains were recovered in dredging operations, including a skull which was thought to be that of a female and which was also acquired by NMI. (Sikora and Cahill 2011, vol. 2, P 509, 7.177)
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of Upload: 20 March, 2012.
References
Sikora, M. and Cahill, M. 2011 Inventory of uninvestigated reports of human remains. In M. Cahill and M. Sikora (eds.), Breaking ground, finding graves – reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, vol. 2, 447-526.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.