Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mausoleum
Drumacoo, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumacoo
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tomb
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19877, -8.90479
- SMR number
- GA103-118004-
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
Extending to the N from the E end of the church (GA103-118001-), this large mausoleum was built in 1830 for Lady Harriet St George and her husband Arthur F. St George (for details see www.buildingsofireland Reg. No. 30410340, last accessed 15 December 2016 ). A section of the graveyard (GA103-118003-) to the W of it was also enclosed for the burial of members of the family (Leask 1960 73).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
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
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.