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Graveyard

Templemoyle (Coolcoo ED), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Templemoyle, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Templemoyle (Coolcoo ED)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Eskerstephen Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Eskerstephen Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.50833, -8.59020
SMR number
GA045-050002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On summit, at NE end of an esker ridge running NE-SW. Claffey (1983, 42-4) claims that this may be the site of an early 'dísert' associated with St Fechín. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an irregularly shaped graveyard close to the td. boundary. On 3rd ed. (1931), it is D-shaped in plan (NE-SW c. 50m, NW-SE c. 40m) with a curving W wall; it has since been extended to S. The older burials, consisting mainly of small set uninscribed stones, are concentrated around the site of the church (GA045-050001-) at N end of the graveyard. Claffey (ibid., 163) mentions that 'on the southern section of the hilltop there is a small concentration of uprights which may mark earlier graves': not located. Aerial reconnaissance in July 1968 (CUCAPAVM 44) revealed some enigmatic cropmarks (GA045-050003-) to NW of the graveyard. Two dugout canoes were found in marshy ground a short distance to SE in the 1970s (Claffey ibid., 46-8; Topgr. Files, OPW and UCG). (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 231, 237)

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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