Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ballyclery, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyclery
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.14771, -8.92073
- SMR number
- GA113-009----
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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
On the S side of an E-W running byroad. Marked the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular 'Burial Ground' (c. 50m E-W; c. 36m N-S). Modern graves occupy its E half. Within the W half there is a deep linear fosse running N-S (L 34m; Wth 4m; D 1.75m), which is known locally as ‘the famine grave’. A number of small headstones (average H 0.2m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.08m), aligned N-S and similar to those in a children's burial ground, are visible to the E of the fosse.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.