Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.06374, -9.51383
- SMR number
- GA120-007003-
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 sand dunes on a hillock that has developed around the church (GA120-007001-), this large roughly square graveyard (c. 98m NE-SW; c. 96m NW-SE) is enclosed by stone wall and field fence. The church is surrounded by modern graves but it is possible that earlier graves lie buried in the sand beneath the modern ones. Mason (1938, 200) refers to an 'ancient' graveyard (see GA120-007005-) that was uncovered 'quite close to the modern graveyard' in 1931. (Gosling 1993, 97, no. 554)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 25 January 2016
References
Mason, T.H. 1938 The antiquarian remains of Inisheer, Aran, Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 196-200.
Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.