Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilbegly, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbegly
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.32156, -8.14280
- SMR number
- RO054-027002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The church of Kilbegly (RO054-027001-) is at the highest point of and towards the S edge of a subcircular ecclesiastical enclosure (RO054-027003-) which is surrounded by the wall of the graveyard (dims c. 130m N-S; c . 95m E-W). The original graveyard is depicted faintly on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped area (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) extending E and S from the church. A geophysical survey undertaken in 2015 identified the ditch of the ecclesiastical enclosure running outside of and roughly parallel with the graveyard wall at W, and a fallow area (Wth c. 30m) was left to protect it. Archaeological testing (18E0345) by Dominic Delaney & Associates W of the fallow area produced no related material (excavations.ie 2018:879).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Amended: 20 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.