Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.06592, -9.52941
- SMR number
- GA120-002002-
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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
This roughly subrectangular graveyard (c. 48m NW-SE; 40m NE-SW) is associated with ‘Cill Ghobnait’, the church (GA120-002001-) located in its NE quadrant. It is enclosed by a drystone stone wall of varying heights and thickness (Wth 1m at N) and it is accessed via a gateway at SE. The interior is uneven and the ground level in the SW sector is c. 3m higher than that to the NE. An almost vertical natural crag separates the two sections. Burial seems to have been concentrated to the S of the church. Slabs protruding about the sod cover indicate possible slab-lined graves. Three leachtaí (GA120-002007-, GA120-002008- and GA120-002009-) are also visible. It is possible that the graveyard wall follows the line of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA120-002011-).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 21 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.