Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Drumacoo, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumacoo
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.19870, -8.90461
- SMR number
- GA103-118003-
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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 the church (GA103-118001-) which is part of an important early monastic site at Drumacoo (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 34). This roughly quadrangular graveyard (c. 60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) is enclosed by a drystone wall. Access is gained at the S end of the E wall. Graveslabs date from the 17th century onwards. A section of the graveyard, to the W of the 19th-century mausoleum (GA103-118004-) that was built against the E end of the N wall of the church, was enclosed for the burial of members of the St George family (Leask 1960, 73). A cross-slab (GA103-118008-) is also associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 December 2016
References
Leask, H.G. 1960 (Reprint 1967 and 1990) Irish churches and monastic buildings, vol. II. Gothic architecture to A.D. 1400. Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
Nearby in the register
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.