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Graveyard

Ardagh (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Ardagh, County Mayo, 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
Ardagh (Tirawley By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
54.09771, -9.22554
SMR number
MA039-015002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 on top of a hill, with excellent views in all directions of the surrounding pastureland.
The roughly square graveyard (36.8m E-W; c. 36m N-S) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall (Wth 0.4m; H 1.2m), probably 18th/19th-century in date. In the second half of the 20th-century the N wall and the N end of the W wall were removed to allow a modern expansion of the graveyard to N. The line of the removed walls is still evident as a cropmark of thicker vegetation growth. There is a ruined medieval church (MA039-015001-) in the SW quadrant. The greatest density of graves is to S and E of the church where 18th- and 19th-century graveslabs and headstones are interspersed with numerous low uninscribed informal stone grave markers, many arranged in N-S rows.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 13 March 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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