Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Knockatemple, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatemple
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89149, -9.10994
- SMR number
- MA070-167002-
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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 towards the base of a steep W-facing slope, on the E bank of a river.
A rectangular grass-grown area (31.5m E-W; 18m N-S) enclosed on its E side by grass-covered wall footings (Wth 0.8m). The interior ground levels fall away by over 1m to the S and W. Several uninscribed stone gravemarkers are visible. There is a ruined medieval church (MA070-167001-) at the NE corner of the graveyard. The graveyard was used as a childrens’ burial ground (MA070-176003-).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.