Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Moyard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave
- Coordinates
- 53.53799, -9.99062
- SMR number
- GA022-057----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Near the crest of a small hill in rough pastureland. Indicated on OS 6-inch maps at a right-angled corner of a field boundary. No visible surface trace survives. A holy well (GA022-056---- ) lies c. 40m to NW.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.