Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilteany, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilteany
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave yard
- Coordinates
- 54.14290, -9.80301
- SMR number
- MA026-003002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in lowlying ground on the N bank of the Owenmore River, close to a bend in the river. There are expanses of bog to N and S.
This graveyard is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a square area (c. 25m E−W; c. 25m N−S), with the church (MA026-003001-) abutting the W boundary, located c. 50m E of the river bank. By the time of the 1921 edition the graveyard had been expanded to its current roughly trapezoidal extent (c. 60m NNE−SSW; c. 45m WNW−ESE at E end, c. 70m at W end), with the W boundary coinciding with the riverbank. The graveyard is enclosed by a mortared stone wall, with a wrought-iron gate at the NE corner. In the interior ground level rises markedly from the perimeter towards the centre. Several early 20th-century headstones of Celtic type area visible, but many the majority of gravemarkers are engulfed in dense vegetation. There graveyard encloses a medieval parish church (MA026-003001-) and a bullaun stone (MA026-003004-).
Attached image:
MA026-003002-_01.JPG: viewed from N
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragment2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.