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Graveyard

Ballygunnertemple, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Ballygunnertemple, County Waterford, 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
Ballygunnertemple
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Burial Gd.
Latest-edition OS map
Burial Ground
Coordinates
52.22799, -7.04064
SMR number
WA018-015002-

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight S-facing slope. The parish church of Ballygunner (WA018-015001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (max. dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 35-55m N-S) defined by masonry walls, but a stone-faced scarp (H 1-1.2m) inside the perimeter at S may indicate an older perimeter. (Power 1890-91, 481)

Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 08 November 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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