Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Bunnafinglas, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunnafinglas
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03461, -9.12488
- SMR number
- MA048-030001-
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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 a burial ground (MA048-030). O’Donovan recorded that ‘An old burial place lies in the Townland of Bunafinglass in the west of the Parish, where it is said there was formerly an Abbey. This is the only (most) frequented burying place in the Parish.’ (OS Letters 1838, Vol. 1, 68). The oldest part of the graveyard lies in the W half of its modern extent. Here, there is a low roughly circular rise (diam. c. 20m) which, according to local tradition, may have been the site of the abbey.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.