Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Dernish Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dernish Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.41917, -8.49845
- SMR number
- SL002-037002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
An extended female inhumation in a slab-lined grave was found in 1992 on Dernish Island. Eight roughly circular flat stones formed a mandola-like ring of glory around the skull of the skeleton. It is considered to date to the early 1st millennium AD. (Buckley, Buckley and McCormick 2002).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 6 August 2015
References
Buckley, V.M., Buckley, L. and McCormick, F. 2002 A curious inhumation burial from Dernish Island, Co. Sligo. In M.A. Timoney (ed.) A celebration of Sligo. Sliog Field Club, 117-20.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.