Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
An Chorr Riabhach, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Chorr Riabhach
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Faughnakilla Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.46214, -9.35862
- SMR number
- GA040-007----
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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 rise in a cleared area of otherwise forested land. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed L-shaped area (c. 25m by c. 20m) but on 2nd ed. (1899) as a larger oval area. Now enclosed by a stone wall, with the original burial area at NE. A holy well (GA040-006----) lies c. 45m 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
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.