Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Bovinion, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bovinion
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.46214, -8.48262
- SMR number
- GA046-005----
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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
This burial ground is associated with the 19th-century Union Workhouse (GA046-006----) c. 100m to the SSW. It is enclosed by a concete fence and is no longer in use. A simple cross commemorates all those buried there.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 2 November 2018
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.