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Graveyard

Ballynagallagh, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Ballynagallagh, 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
Ballynagallagh
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Burial Ground
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard (1927)
Coordinates
52.50544, -8.53106
SMR number
LI032-043003-

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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

Situated on N facing slope of rising rocky grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. The S shoreline of Lough Gur lies 650m to the N. Rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 27m N-S ; 32m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 wall with entrance stile at W end of N wall close to NW angle. A short section of medieval wall belonging to a 13th century Augustinian nunnery (LI032-043002-) has been incorporated into the W wall of the graveyard. Only two upstanding headstones are visible inside the graveyard which was last used in the 1960s. On the first edition of the OS 6-inch map the graveyard boundary appears to enclose a smaller area with the medieval building (LI032-043002-) standing in NW angle of the burial ground. On the revised 1927 ed. OS 6-inch map the graveyard boundary has been extended to the N forming the outline of the present graveyard. The remains of an earthen bank running parallel to the E wall of the graveyard may represent the remains of an earlier graveyard boundary.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 5 July 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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