Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballynakill, County Sligo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.