County: Roscommon Site name: KILTULLAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR: 32-001 Licence number: 94E0030
Author: Finbar McCormick, Dept. of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast
Site type: Standing stone
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 552961m, N 774018m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.713725, -8.712574
Excavation at the base of a standing stone uncovered the burial of a male inhumation dating to the 5th century AD.
For details of the excavation see F. McCormick, G. Cribbin, M.E. Robinson and D. W. Shimwell 1995 'A pagan-Christian transitional burial at Kiltullagh', Emania 13, 90-98.
