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Graveyard

Roscam, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Roscam, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Roscam
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard (Disused)
Coordinates
53.26390, -8.98441
SMR number
GA094-072003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a S-facing downslope in the S sector of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-). This graveyard, roughly P-shaped in plan (L c. 65m on W side; Wth c. 30m on N side; L c. 24m on E side; L of E side of stem of ‘P’ c. 35m; Wth c. 8m at S tip), is defined by a double-faced rubble-built drystone wall. Access is via a gateway at the SW end. Numerous grave-markers orientated E-W are visible, many running in a N-S running linear pattern. Inscribed headstones date to the 19th and 20th centuries. A possible leacht (GA0940972013-) is visible in the NE corner and an early Christian cross-slab (094-072012-), and medieval graveslabs (GA094-0720006- and GA094-072011-) are also associated. Within the S section are two multiple bullaun stones (GA094-072008- and GA094-072009-). Numerous dressed and moulded architectural fragments (GA094-072015-) are scattered throughout the graveyard.

The following image has been upload:
GA094-072003-_01 General view of graveyard from SSE

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 19 May 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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