People and Places of Galway

Standard Name:

St. Ruth's Flag

Irish Form of Name:

Translation:

Civil Parish:

Aughrim
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:

St. Ruth's Flag
St. Ruth's Flag John Magher, Esq.

Comment:

Site of Kilcommodan Church and burying place for children

Description:

St. Ruth’s flag is a black irregular stone supposed to be over his grave previous to his being removed from Kilcommadan. The old Church is built at the foot of the hill (Kilcommadan) is about 80 links by 30 in breadth. The burying place is small about 140 links by 40 links.

Situation:

Are situated in the S.W. part of Kilcommadan townland. The flag stands about 5 chains N. East of the old Church, the burying place bounds its South side.

Information from the Ordnance Survey Letters:

The Ordnance Survey Letters are letters between John O'Donovan and his supervisor, Thomas Larcom, regarding the work of compiling the Field Books. These letters provide further discussion on many of the places listed in the Field Books.

References to this place can be found in the following letter.

Volume 1 page 566

What is a townland?:

A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169

Townland:

St. Ruth's Flag is in Kilcommadan townland.

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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This link is not a link to the townland that you are currently researching; however, if you follow this link, you will see a search box near the top of the page which you can use to search for your townland.

Having followed this link, you will see several expandable links - each link has a plus sign on its left - on the top left of the page. Expand 'Base Information and Mapping'. Now it is possible to select the maps that you wish to view by clicking on the checkbox that is on the left of each map; this list includes the original Ordnance Survey maps.

You can select more than one map and you can use a slider to make one map more transparent than another. This allows you to view what features were present or absent at different points in time.
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St. Ruth's Flag

Information from the National Monuments Service.
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You can use this link to view a map of archaelogical features.
This link brings you to a website wherein you will have to search for your townland.

Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

Information about St. Ruth's Flag

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Townland Information

Information From Maps