Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killeenadeema West, County Galway, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.