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Burial ground

Killeen Or Killeenlynagh (Portnahinch By.), County Laois, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Killeen Or Killeenlynagh, County Laois, 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
Killeen Or Killeenlynagh (Portnahinch By.)
County
Laois
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Killeen Grave Yd.
Latest-edition OS map
Killeen Grave Yd. (Disused)
Coordinates
53.09629, -7.26217
SMR number
LA008-009002-

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Depicted on first edition of the OS 6-inch map as a large square shaped graveyard indicated on OS 6-inch map as Killeen Grave Yd. No surface remains visible of graveyard located at base of gentle slope. Square shaped graveyard (int. dims. 85m N-S; 91m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current edition of the OS 6-inch map. The OS letters of 1838 record that 'An old burying place lies in Killeen Townland, where there is also a well called 'Cavagh's (Cavan's?) Well', a name not in general known among the neighbouring inhabitants' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, p. 67).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Nearby in the register

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

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