Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killora, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killora
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22028, -8.73416
- SMR number
- GA104-151003-
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 (GA104-151001-) which stands in its SW end, this irregularly shaped graveyard (c. 70m NE-SW; c. 60m ENE-WSW) is delimited by a drystone wall constructed of rough limestone blocks. It slopes steeply to the S. Access is gained at SE. A survey of all the headstones, which date from the 18th to the 20th centuries and include a number of broad tombstones bearing occupational symbols, as well as a number of late medieval graveslabs within the church (see GA104-151005- to GA104-151009-) were recorded by Chapple (1995).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 4 March 2020
References
Chapple, R.M. 1995 (2001 CD-R Edition) The church of prayers. Gravestone inscriptions from the graveyard of Killora, Craughwell, Co. Galway. Belfast. The Oculus Obscura Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.