What is recorded here

General St. Ruths Flag marks a tiny rectangular enclosure near an early church in County Galway. Local tradition claims St. Ruth buried there before his body moved elsewhere, leaving the flag behind as a ghost marker. No surface trace survives, but the name still points to a place where faith outlived flesh and memory refused to fade.

Some 100m NE of a probable early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA087-126001-). Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a tiny rectangular enclosure. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 566) note that 'St. Ruth is said to have been buried in the [nearby] grave yard … where his “flag” is yet shewn, but it is said that his body was afterwards removed from it'. No visible surface trace survives. See also CBG (GA087-126003-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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