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Graveyard

Kilvarnet North, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilvarnet North, 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
Kilvarnet North
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
54.12786, -8.60911
SMR number
SL032-034002-

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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 roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 60m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) enclosed by a stone wall except on the NW side where it has been removed to allow for the recent extension of the burial area by c. 30m. Within the graveyard is a large flat-topped platform (c. 60m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE), on which stands the medieval parish church of Kilvarnet (SL032-034001-). This platform is truncated at SW by the roadside wall of the graveyard. The NW side of the platform is defined by an almost vertical scarp (H 0.8-1m at W, 0.5m at NNE) with traces of stone-facing. Modern graves abut the scarp and it marks the division between the platform where the earliest graves (18th/19th- and early 20th-century formal headstones and occasional uninscribed grave-markers) are located and the flat ground to NW which is occupied by mid- to late 20th-century graves. The scarp peters out at NE, and the SE side of the platform is defined by a broad irregular slope (Wth c. 4m; H 1.6m), overlain with graves.

Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 20 June 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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