Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Páirc An Teampaill Íochtarach, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Páirc An Teampaill Íochtarach
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.62885, -9.39030
- SMR number
- MA117-009002-
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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
Located on the W shores of Lough Mask. This graveyard is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a trapezoidal walled area (c. 35M N−S; c. 40m E−W at N end, c. 20m at S end) with a church (MA117-009001-) indicated in the N half; on the 1929 edition it is shown as a somewhat larger, rectangular walled area (48m E−W; 57m N−S). The W, N and E walls are stone-built, with stone and mortar coping. The S wall of the graveyard has been removed and the graveyard extended to S and SE. The interior is grass-covered. There are 19th and 20th−century headstones, occasional graveslabs, and rectangular graveplots with concrete surrounds. The graveyard underwent a ‘clean-up’ in the second half of the in the 20th-century; there are multiple N−S rows of low, plain concrete crosses, which appear to have replaced traditional uninscribed, stone gravemarkers, a few of which are extant at the site of the church (MA117-009001-). There is a bullaun stone (MA117-009003-) in the grave yard.
Image: MA117-009002-_01.JPG viewed from NW
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.