Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ballyfroota, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfroota
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 52.38915, -8.38060
- SMR number
- LI049-102----
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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
Graveyard depicted as a small circular shaped area shown with a dotted outline on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted as an oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 26m N-S x 48m E-W) on the OS 25-inch map. No church site associated with this burial ground. Outline of levelled burial ground visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Tobereendoney holy well (LI049-101----) 60m to W and Cromlech (LI049-103----) with cross-inscribed roof-stone immediately to S. In 1838 the Ordnance Survey recorded the following about this burial ground also known as 'Clochan Varra' which was described as; 'Cloch a' Bhárraigh, Barry's Stone. Cloch often mean a stone building in this part of Ireland. Cloghavarra. The remains of an old burial ground' (OSNB Ballingarry Parish, 196). The 'Clochan Varra' appears to be a reference to the roadside megalithic structure (LI049-103----).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 31 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.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.