Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Inis Ní, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Ní
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.39611, -9.89245
- SMR number
- GA050-011002-
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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 the E side of Inis Ní, overlooking Cloonile Bay. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly subcircular graveyard (c. 30m NE-SW; c. 27m NE-SW) with a ‘St. Mathias’s Chapel’ (GA050-011001-) immediately outside its boundary at WSW. On the 1898-9 resurvey of the map both elements are incorporated into a larger graveyard, roughly trapezoidal in shape (c. 80m NE-SW; c. 77m NW-SE). Traces of the earlier burial area (40m N-S; 20m E-W), defined by a boundary wall constructed of large and small boulders, are visible in the E half of the graveyard in a slight hollow. It may mark the original monastic hermitage. The greatest concentration of burials occurs in its S half where rows of neat stone-lined graves with upright headstones are orientated E-W. A leacht (GA050-011003-) and its associated cross-inscribed pillar (GA050-011004-) are visible at SE. A low rough bolder wall divides this area and the N half is c. 1.5m lower. Fewer burials are visible in this section and they are of recent date.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.