Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Roscam, County Galway, Ireland
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-
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 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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.