Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ballingarry (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingarry (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.18142, -8.62440
- SMR number
- GA105-008----
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
Immediately to the S of a laneway in low-lying pastureland. Named 'Burial Ground' on the 1938 edition of the OS 6-inch map and shown as a small triangular area (c. 18m max. E-W; c. 10m N-S) enclosed by three field boundaries. All that now survives is a slightly raised unenclosed area in the NW corner of the field. Within it five set slabs, aligned NW-SE, mark graves. The slabs are of rough stone (av. H 0.32m; Wth 0.24m; T 0.09m) and no markings are evident. A bush, known as 'the burying bush', which was close to the burial ground (information from E. Rynne), may one of the hawthorn trees growing along the NW-SE running field boundary to its W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.