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Graveyard

Killeenadeema West, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Killeenadeema West, 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
Killeenadeema West
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.16444, -8.57442
SMR number
GA115-031001-

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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

In pastureland. This roughly subtriangular graveyard (c. 63m NE-SW; c. 53m NW-SE) is defined by a mortar-built limestone wall. In the S sector a single foundation course of larger projecting boulders may be part of an earlier enclosing wall, suggesting the possible presence of an ecclesiastical enclosure. The remains of a medieval church (GA115-031----) stand in the SE corner of the graveyard and a modern church (GA115-031004-) occupies the NE sector. No visible surface trace of the 'Old R.C. Chapel' shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map in its W sector survives. Modern headstones now occupy this area. The graveyard has been extended to the W.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 25 February 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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