Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Cartoorbeg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartoorbeg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ollabrendan Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ollabrendan Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.53641, -10.15498
- SMR number
- GA021-006----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Close to seashore on NE side of Omey Island. This irregularly shaped graveyard, correctly Ula Bhreandáin, is shown on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a kidney-shaped area (NW-SE 45m; NE-SW 25m) later extended to N (2nd ed., 1898). Still in use today.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.