Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Kilrush Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrush Upper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63924, -7.00713
- SMR number
- WM009-045----
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
Situated on gently rising ground in a sheltered location. Human remains were discovered at this location during land reclamation works in 1992 in an area measuring 30m N-S by 70m E-W. A field report from that time reported that ‘no articulated skeletons were noted but the remains were definitely human. The burials were close to the surface’ (ASI Field Report).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.