Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carlow
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- The Graves
- Coordinates
- 52.84273, -6.93225
- SMR number
- CW007-001----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Enclosed strip of land along E side of River Barrow with no visible evidence of structure. Large number of headstones of eighteenth and later centuries. According to Burns (Carloviana 1973, 14), granted in 1607 to local Catholics for burial purposes.
Nearby in the register
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.