Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Temple, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Temple
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.93756, -8.78658
- SMR number
- MA063-050002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · 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
In an area of gently undulating pastureland, located on a SE-facing slope. A road skirts the graveyard at N–E. There is a holy well (MA063-043001-) located c. 200m to SW.
Sub-rectangular walled area (c. 50m NW–SE; c. 50m NE–SW) with a high density of burials, the earliest inscribed gravestone dating to the 19th-century. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map it is marked as ‘Grave Yard’ and a rectangular building indicated as ‘R.C. Chapel’ (MA063-050001-) is indicated at the N end; no trace of this chapel is now evident.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.