Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Mweelin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mweelin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.55420, -9.87732
- SMR number
- GA023-023002-
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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 W-facing hillslope within Connemara National Park. Reputedly associated with a St Maol Roc (Tully Cross I.C.A. 1985, 9), but regarded in local tradition as a penal burial ground (pers. comm. T. Robinson). Named but not indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. It now consists of a subcircular area (N-S 40m, E-W 50m) enclosed by a low and collapsed stone wall from E through S to W. The interior is very overgrown and the graves, all plain headstones, are concentrated at S end. A holy well (GA023-023001-) lies immediately to N.
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
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.