Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Iorras Beag Thiar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Iorras Beag Thiar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gorteen Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.38110, -9.95704
- SMR number
- GA063-001----
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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
Close to the sand-dunes on SE-facing slope overlooking Port na Feadóige. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small, roughly oval enclosed area (c. 30m by c. 15m). Now enlarged into a roughly rectangular graveyard and enclosed by field walls. The interior slopes from NW to SE and contains both modern and plain boulder-marked graves. An extensive shell midden, (GA063-002----) lies to SW. (Bigger 1895, 728)
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.