Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ginnaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ginnaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Esker Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.52354, -8.69309
- SMR number
- GA030-064----
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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 prominent hillock close to the td. boundary, 400m NW of the village of Levally, it overlooks bogland to W, N and NE. Well-preserved graveyard (ESE-WNW 41m, NNE-SSW 18.5m), oval in plan, enclosed by a drystone wall. Access is gained via gate at E. The interior is covered by numerous rectangular stone-lined graves with small uninscribed headstones at W end, arranged in N-S running rows. In SE part of the interior are the foundations of a square building (L/Wth 4m) defined by a collapsed stone wall with a gap at W. This lies within a small oval enclosure (WNW-ESE c. 11m) delimited by the fragmentary remains of a drystone wall.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.