Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Dooros (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooros (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dooros Graveyard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dooros Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.01243, -8.32298
- SMR number
- GA132-013001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight rise in hilly grassland. This well-preserved D-shaped graveyard (c. 45m E-W) with straight (L c. 65m) NNW-SSE side is enclosed by a mortared stone wall with access at W. It contains mainly 19th- and 20th-century headstones but older burials are indicated by inscribed graveslabs and uninscribed grave-markers. A well (GA132-013002-) lies c. 50m to the N and there is a mound barrow (GA132-033----) c. 40m to the WNW; a 'friary' (GA132-013003-) is said to have been located at the latter monument(O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 515). A holy bush (GA132-013004-) is also associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2020
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.