Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Baggotstown East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baggotstown East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (Disused) (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.45748, -8.49621
- SMR number
- LI040-013----
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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
Bouchier's burial ground depicted as a small oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined with a dotted outline on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a sub-rectangular shaped area on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. The faint outline of the graveyard and some stones protruding from the ground are visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Described by O'Kelly (1944, 18) as site of a church which he described as following; 'No trace now visible, but the site is marked by a disused graveyard. The latter is not enclosed and appears as a mound from which protrude several rough stones. One legible stone was erected to the memory of John Bourchier, who died 1774. Nothing is known of the church'. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Letters recorded that 'there is a burial ground in the west end, called Bouchier's Burial Ground' (OSNB, Knockainy Parish, 1206). There is no evidence to suggest that there was ever a church located inside this graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 July 2019
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
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- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.