Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Kilcloony (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcloony (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.58994, -8.86521
- SMR number
- GA016-063001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a SW-facing slope in grassland, immediately to the W of a N-S running road. Named ‘Burial Ground’ on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as a roughly square tree-lined enclosure (c. 57m NW-SE; c. 55m NE-SW). Its E half was considerably extended by the time of the 1932 edition (c. 95m NW-SE; c. 86m E-W). The burial ground is enclosed by a mortared stone wall; access is gained through a gateway at E. Most of the headstones and graveslabs date to the 19th and 20th centuries. On initial inspection in October 1984, numerous small uninscribed set stones were visible in the older W section as well as two crudely cut crosses (see GA016-063003- and GA016-063004-). FitzPatrick (2019, 28) noted the wall-footings of a possible building (GA106-063005-) in this area in 2019 and has suggested that it could be the site of the medieval church of Kilcloony and not the building (see GA016-061----) designated as such on the OS maps. (Alcock et al. 1999, 313)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 7 December 2022
References
Alcock, O., de Hora, K. and Gosling, P. 1999 Archaeological Inventory of County Galway. Vol. II. North Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.
FitzPatrick, E. 2019 A settlement of the Uí hUiginn poets and its landscape setting Kilcloony, county Galway Cill Chluaine, Conmhaicne Mac Fheóruis. Internal Milltown Heritage Group report. Unpublished.
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