Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Dunneill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunneill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 54.24563, -8.86531
- SMR number
- SL012-036002-
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 graveyard at Dunneill, which is densely overgrown with brambles and other scrub, is rectangular in plan (dims. 35m E-W; 30m N-S) and contains headstones bearing 18th, 19th and 20th century inscriptions. Much of the N half is occupied by a medieval church (SL012-036001-). In 1956 human bones (SL012-036003-) were were uncovered during quarrying in a sandpit immediately outside of the SSW wall of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.