Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballymoat, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymoat
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.51816, -8.83201
- SMR number
- GA029-018----
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
On a S-facing slope in grassland near the NE limits of Tuam town (GA029-199----). Trapezoidal-shaped graveyard (N-S 47m, E-W 36.5m) enclosed by a modern stone wall. Blocked-up entrance in N wall. Within E half of the interior are a number of small uninscribed limestone uprights. In W half, there are three large N-S running ridges with hollows between them; possibly the site of a mass grave from famine times.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.