Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Rosscahill East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosscahill East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.38768, -9.24666
- SMR number
- GA068-061002-
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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
In an area of dense scrub and gorse. This small oval-shaped graveyard lies to the W of 'St. Brecan's Church' (GA068-061001-). On inspection it was heavily overgrown and all of the visible headstones were of late-18th-century date.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.