Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Corrafaireen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrafaireen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.39572, -8.73089
- SMR number
- GA071-023001-
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
On a S-facing slope in otherwise level grassland. Quadrangular graveyard (E-W c. 45m) enclosed by an earthen bank overlain by a stone wall. In W sector of the interior, there is a small circular enclosure (D 18.2m) defined by an earthen bank which encloses a holy well (GA071-023002-). Though the earliest graves date only from mid-19th C, the monument may be of greater antiquity.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.