Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killogilleen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killogilleen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.19144, -8.70313
- SMR number
- GA104-148005-
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
Situated on a slight rise in gently undulatingpasture land that falls towards a small stream to the SW. This rectangular graveyard (c. 48m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) contains the ruins of a church (GA104-148004-). A 17th-century graveslab (GA104-148008-) lies within the church and a sculpted stone head (GA104-148009-) is set in the ground c. 7.5m to the SW of its W gable. Numerous cut-stone fragments from the church have been used as grave-markers. A survey of the gravestone inscriptions was undertaken between 1995 and 1997 (Chapple 1997; 2005, 181).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 10 January 2014
References
Chapple, R.M. 1997 Cillogcillín. Gravestone inscriptions from the graveyard of Killogilleen, Craughwell, Co. Galway. Belfast. Oculus Obscura Press.
Chapple, R.M. 2005 Tattooed Lady?: a carved stone head from the graveyard of Killogilleen, Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 57, 181-8.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.