Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockanaman (Grave Yd.)
- Coordinates
- 53.13130, -9.75312
- SMR number
- GA110-048----
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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
On a limestone knoll on S side of road, close to Port Mhuirbhigh, Inis Mór. Indicated on the 1899 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly D-shaped unenclosed area (L/Wth c. 20m); it is now enclosed by a concrete wall. The modern graves are at W end but there is a high concentration of small plain gravestones at E, amongst which is a small upright cross-slab (GA110-048002-). The knoll is known locally as Cnocán na mBan from a tradition that the O'Briens slaughtered each other almost to extinction, watched by their womenfolk from this area. The field to N, on other side of road, is called Fearann na gCeann (GA110-048001-) from the skulls said to have been dug up there (Robinson 1980).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock 7 April 2016
Date of revised upload: 7 April 2016
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.