Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Lackagh Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackagh Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.37497, -8.87714
- SMR number
- GA070-089001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 graveyard, which is still in use, is associated with the church (GA070-089----) located in its NNE sector. On the 1934 edition of the OS 6-inch map it was roughly rectangular in plan (c. 73m N-S; c. 52m E-W) but it has subsequently been extended to the S and W. The earliest graveslab noted on inspection in August 1983 dated to 1882.
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/2002).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.