Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Trasgarve, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Trasgarve
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.16787, -8.84024
- SMR number
- SL024-001----
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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)
- 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a NW-facing blanket bog-covered slope in the Ox Mountains. Two partial human skeletons were discovered in 1969 during turf cutting. The two skeletons were oriented E–W, with the feet to E. Skeleton One comprised most of the upper and lower limb bones but the skull and vertebrae were not recovered. Skeleton Two comprised only some of the lower limb bones, which partly overlay those of Skeleton One. No features or textural difference in the surrounding peat suggested a grave structure or pit. (NMI Correspondence Files).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10th March 2014
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone1 mi
- Crannog2 mi
- Hut site3 mi
- Settlement cluster3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.