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Graveyard

Ballynakill, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Ballynakill, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynakill
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Coordinates
54.15278, -8.35817
SMR number
SL027-094002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A trapezoidal graveyard (c. 60m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW at NW end; c. 50m NE-SW at SE end) enclosed by a stone wall. It was extended c. 25m to the NW prior to 1894 and quernstones found here are in the NMI (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). A small walled-off area against the W wall is the burial place of the Cogan family. The fragmentary remains of the medieval parish church of Ballynakill (SL027-094001-) are in the centre of the interior. It has been noted that the memorials are arranged in an arc in the SE quadrant, perhaps indicating the former existence of a curved enclosing element around the graveyard (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).

Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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