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Graveyard

Ballyshannon Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Ballyshannon Demesne, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyshannon Demesne
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.08640, -6.82631
SMR number
KD028-058004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the top of a long gentle, S-facing pasture slope. Contains a possible medieval church site (KD028-058002-). A motte (KD028-058001-) stands c. 50m to the E, and the levelled Ballyshannon Castle (KD032-003002-) stood c. 70m to the SSE. An outwork of the bastioned fort (KD032-003001-) which defended Ballyshannon Castle enclosed the church, but the graveyard is not depicted on the plan (Fitzgerald 1899-1902, 447). A subrectangular area (c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall with an entrance gate on the N side. Legible burial markers date from the 18th to the 20th-century.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 21 May 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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