Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killeen (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.46103, -9.85686
- SMR number
- GA036-009----
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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
In demesne forest close to E bank of An Abhainn Mhór. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular graveyard (20.5m by 15m). Now disused, and defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall. The majority of the graves are marked by small undressed headstones but one in SW corner bears a date of 1838. There is a possibility that this graveyard may stand on the site of a medieval friary (GA036-020----). There is a holy well (GA036-008----) 70m 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
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.