Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Na Braonáin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Na Braonáin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.52670, -9.59028
- SMR number
- GA025-001----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On low-lying land in the centre of Gleann an Mháma and NE of the Joyce River. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed irregularly shaped graveyard (c. 45m by c. 30m). Now much enlarged, rectangular and enclosed. It is divided into two parts: the larger W part containing modern graves, and E part containing older 19th-C graveslabs and plain headstones, two of which display Latin crosses.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Boundary mound1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Children's burial ground1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.