Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Curragh (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilcurragh Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilcurragh Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.11482, -8.43815
- SMR number
- GA116-035----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an E-facing slope in pastureland. On inspection in July 1983 this irregularly shaped burial ground (25m N-S; 20m E-W) was defined by a stone wall with an entrance at SE. A number of headstones and some small randomly spaced slabs were visible in the undergrowth. There was a bullaun stone (GA116-035001-) beside the entrance, on the N side, and a holy well (GA116-034----) c. 100m to the NE. Current OSi aerial imagery indicates that the burial ground has been subsumed into a larger graveyard. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 514)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.