Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilmacduagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacduagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Old Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53704, -9.15202
- SMR number
- MA121-146002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The OS Letters (1838, 224 (95)) record that 'In the Townland of Kilmacduagh also in Kilmainebeg there is a graveyard in which a small old church dedicated to Saint Mac Duach had stood, and which gave name to the townland'. A rectangular walled area, accessed at the SE corner by a road, is indicated as 'Old Grave Yard' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. It is not marked as a graveyard on the 1929 edition but a rectangular field or enclosure (c. 35m NNW-SSE; c. 30m ENE-WSW), open at SE, is indicated. Lavelle (1994, 99, no. 678) recorded it as follows: ‘Shown on OS map (1838) as ‘Old Grave Yard’; with church (MA121-146001-). No visible surface traces.’
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 January 2015
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.