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Graveyard

Cloghanower, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Cloghanower, 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
Cloghanower
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Burial Ground
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Coordinates
53.44962, -9.08746
SMR number
GA056-055002-

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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

Immediately to the S of the roadway. This graveyard (c. 90m NW-SE; c. 54m NE-SW), subtriangular in plan, is delimited by a wall of mortared uncut limestone blocks topped with coping stones. Access is gained through the original gateway at NNW and a more recent gateway at ESE; there is a stile to the N of the latter entrance. The remains of a medieval church (GA056-055001-) stand roughly in the centre of the interior. Graveslabs and table tombs date from the 18th century; 19th- and 20th-century graveslabs are also visible as well as numbers uninscribed grave-markers. The earliest recorded graveslab dates to the 17th century and it is now set into the external face of the graveyard wall, to the W of the original gateway - see GA056-055004-. Another graveslab is set into the wall to the S of the gateway but its inscription is illegible.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 25 July 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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