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Burial ground

Ballingarry (Loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Ballingarry, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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