Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Ballybraid, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybraid
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.96696, -6.33572
- SMR number
- WI029-026----
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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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a narrow terrace on a steep hillside. Known as 'The Twelve Graves', the traditional burial place of locals masacred by Cromwellian troops and marked by twelve recently erected commemorative wooden crosses (pers comm. Denis Gill).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 18 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
- Barracks1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.