Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Grallagh Upper, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grallagh Upper
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.00396, -7.74949
- SMR number
- WA038-005001-
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
Situated in pasture towards the top of a gentle NW-facing slope overlooking the E-W Lickey river, which is c. 500m to the N. It is described as a ‘Burial Ground’ and depicted as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 35m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) defined by field banks with the straight side at NW only on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is traditionally known as Páirc na Cille - the field of the church (Power 1952, 93). Nothing is visible at ground level, apart from a slightly dished circular area (diam. 26m).
Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 10th October, 2011
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.