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Burial ground

Rathanny, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Rathanny, 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
Rathanny
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.46266, -8.47096
SMR number
LI040-018001-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Burial ground depicted as a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 25m) shown in dotted outline on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Tobergobbun or St. Gobban's Well (LI040-017----) shown 20m to N of burial ground on OS 6-inch map. Described by O'Kelly (1944, 32) as following; 'No trace survives nor is there any sign of the graveyard which is said to have surrounded it'. There is no evidence to suggest that there was ever a church inside this burial ground. A curve in the watercourse depicted on 1897 OS 25-inch map may following enclosing element of W side of burial ground.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 30 July 2019

References

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

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

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