Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Glebe (garrycastle By., Clonmacnoise Ed), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (garrycastle By., Clonmacnoise Ed)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caltragh Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31672, -7.92226
- SMR number
- OF006-062----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not visible at ground level. According to local information site was used as a burial ground. Depicted on first edition OS 6-inch map as 'Caltragh Burying Ground'. Recent burial uncovered during the construction of an extension to the nearby Carrowkeel House (pers. comm. Heather King 2007), burial ground may have extended into adjoining field containing Carrwokeel House. Described in the OS Field Name Books of 1837-40 as 'Cealltrach, an unconsecrated burial ground. In the N.E. side of the td. of Glebe. It is about 70 links square' (OSFNB 1837-40, Vol. 1, 34).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 January 2010
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.