Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Aghade, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghade
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Graveyard
- Coordinates
- 52.76076, -6.73897
- SMR number
- CW013-056----
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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
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: 16 July 2012
Cemetery of at least eight inhumation burials, (extended, head to N or NNW) without grave goods or protection found while digging sand in 1949. One burial excavated. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 295-7)
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian nunsunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.