Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Bunmore West, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunmore West
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 54.04734, -9.79893
- SMR number
- MA035-003002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located in a glen, on a SW facing slope, in mountainous terrain. There is a stream immediately to E.
This graveyard is indicated on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps as a rectangular enclosed area, with a church (MA035-003001-), named Temple Eunna’ incorporated into the W corner of the graveyard wall. The graveyard appears almost square (max. dim. c. 30m) on the 1838 map, but is shown as rectangular (c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) on the 1920 edition. In the 1940’s The Irish Tourism Survey (unpublished) noted a small, rough cross-inscribed graveslab (MA035-003003-) within the graveyard. An inspection in 1996 found no visible trace of the graveyard. There is a holy well (MA035-004001-), named Tober Eunna, c. 100m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.