Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Derrydonnell More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrydonnell More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.27234, -8.82042
- SMR number
- GA095-029003-
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
Associated with a medieval church (GA095-029002-) and an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA095-029001-); this subrectangular graveyard (c. 45m E-W; c. 40m N-S) lies immediately to the S of the church. It is enclosed by a stone wall which curves slightly around the S sector, suggesting that it may be following the line of an internal division of the ecclesiastical enclosure. On inspection in December 1982 several upright headstones were visible in the interior. On re-inspection in August 1992 they could not be seen due to the dense growth of thorn trees and bushes which made the graveyard virtually impenetrable. Current OSi aerial imagery indicates that the graveyard has since been cleared of overgrowth.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.