Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Eastwell, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eastwell
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd. (Private)
- Coordinates
- 53.26380, -8.42503
- SMR number
- GA098-101----
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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
In undulating pastureland, formerly part of the demesne of Eastwell House, the site of which lies 200m to NW. Marked but not named on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an irregularly shaped hachured enclosure. What is visible is a very poorly preserved roughly oval enclosure (N-S c. 65m, E-W 50m), now badly overgrown, enclosed by a stone wall and entered via an arched gateway at NW. In the interior is a burial vault beside which is an elaborately decorated stone cross commemorating 'Christopher Ussher' who died in 1884.
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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.