Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballynahaglish, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahaglish
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 54.07173, -9.16275
- SMR number
- MA039-053002-
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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
This graveyard is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a rectangular walled area (c. 50m N–S; c. 40m E–W) accessed by a short laneway at N, and with a church (MA039-053001-) ‘in ruins’ in the NW quadrant. By the time of the 1930 edition it had changed little, but since then has been extended greatly to N and E, resulting in the removal of the old boundary walls on those sides. Mortared stone walls of uncoarsed rubble remain at W and S.
Numerous low, upright uninscribed stone gravemarkers protrude from the uneven, grass-cover surface in the old part of the graveyard. Some consist of small, roughly rectangular slabs, but most are simple, rough field stones. They are arranged in roughly N-S rows, with the gravemarkers sometimes very close-set or contiguous. Interspersed between these simple gravemarkers, are formal, inscribed headstones, graveslabs and table tombs, dating to the 18th- and 19th-centuries, with a few 20th-century graves. A carved stone cross (MA039-053003-), found within the graveyard 25m SE of the church, is now located within the church.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.