Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Clooncunny, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncunny
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80040, -8.17373
- SMR number
- RO022-146----
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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 a level landscape. At least five inhumations oriented E-W were uncovered in 1972 at a depth of c. 0.9m when a road was being straightened. Some of the remains were acquired by the National Museum of Ireland (Sikora and Cahill 2011, vol. 2, P 510, 7.179).
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.