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Graveyard

Ballybrood, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Ballybrood, County Limerick, 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
Ballybrood
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard (1928)
Coordinates
52.55887, -8.44683
SMR number
LI023-053002-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a SW-facing slope, on W side of public road. Square area (39m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by a mortared limestone wall (H c. 1.4m); breach (Wth c. 1.2m) near S end of W wall. Stile mid-way along E-wall and gateway (Wth 2.7m) at N-end of same. Ruin of church (LI023-053001-) off-centre to S; low, uninscribed gravemarkers to immediate E and S. Scarped edge (max. Wth 2.75m; H 1.25m) defines S-side of graveyard with interior higher than perimeter. Sunken pathway (basal Wth 2.75m; long-axis c. E-W) traverses northern half of interior from gated entrance. No standing remains of C of I church, built in 1807, which formerly stood in N side of yard (Westropp 1904-5, 443).

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 15 November 2013

References

Westropp, T.J. 1904-5 A survey of the ancient churches of Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 25C, 327-479.

Nearby in the register

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

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