Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Lagavooren, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lagavooren
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd
- Coordinates
- 53.70840, -6.34283
- SMR number
- LH024-038----
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
Triangular shaped enclosed area marked 'Burial Gd' on the 1938 'OS 6-inch' map (map dims. 125m x 105m x 103m) with 'Calvery Cemetery' adjoining it to the E. Referred to as 'the pauper's graveyard' in the 1930's (IFC Schools' Mss 679, 338).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 28 August 2012
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.