Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Aghagower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghagower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.76412, -9.46492
- SMR number
- MA088-063002-
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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 located in the centre of Aghagower village, at a junction of several roads, which lie directly outside the graveyard walls on the W, N and E sides. The graveyard consist of a subrectangular area (c. 65m N−S; c. 55m E−W) enclosed by a stone-built wall (Wth 0.45m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 1.55m) of relatively recent date. It is bordered at S by the present-day Roman Catholic church.
Remains dating to the medieval period, which are enclosed within the graveyard, include a round tower (MA088-063003-), a church (MA088-063001-) and a bullaun stone (MA088-063010-). A penitential station (MA088-063004-), known as ‘Labba Patrick’ or Patrick’s Bed, is located at the SE end of the graveyard and was the traditional starting point of a ‘pattern’ or devotional round of prayers, which also visited two holy wells, one (MA088-063005-) located immediately outside the graveyard wall at NW, and the other (MA088-063006-) 7m NNW of the graveyard.
The interior ground level of the graveyard is considerably higher than exterior ground level, indicating a build-up of ground level over time. There is a high density of grave plots, the majority marked by inscribed headstones of 19th-and 20th-century date, but interspersed amongst them are simple uninscribed stone gravemarkers.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 11 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.