Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Menlough, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Menlough
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30030, -9.07757
- SMR number
- GA082-061----
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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 rise on E bank of River Corrib some 250m SE of the village of Menlough. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an irregular unenclosed area (c. 45m by c. 25m). Since enlarged and enclosed: the earliest dated burials are of late 19th-C date.
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
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.