Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Dubhachta, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dubhachta
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gortnakilla Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.51999, -9.48642
- SMR number
- GA026-008----
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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
At N end of Dooghta Valley, N of the Dooghta River. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small enclosed rectangular graveyard (c. 30m by c. 15m). The original enclosing element, a low earthen bank revetted by stone, survives only from SW to S: elsewhere it is now bounded by modern field walls. The graves are concentrated in S part of the interior where several hundred plain headstones are visible.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassified1 mi
- Crannog1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.