Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Rahinashurock, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahinashurock
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36744, -7.42059
- SMR number
- WM038-025001-
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
There are no surface remains visible of Bronze Age burials in the townland of Rahinashurock which were excavated in the 1960s (Danaher 1965, 225-9).
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 18 December 2019
References
Danaher, P. 1965 Bronze age burials at Rahinashurock, Co. Westmeath. Ríocht na Midhe 3, 225-9.
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.