Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ballynacliffy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacliffy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.51657, -7.86280
- SMR number
- WM015-013----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · 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
Depicted as a circular shaped burial ground standing at the junction between the townlands of Coolaleena and Littletown on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. A 'Ruin' is shown at this location on Larkin's 1808 map of Co. Westmeath. The townland boundary of Coolaleena lies immediately to S with Littletown boundary immediately to E. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small circular-shaped enclosure delimited by a broken line and annotated as ‘Killeenaglina Burying Ground’. On the revised 1912 ed. OS 6-inch map the graveyard is depicted as a square-shaped burial ground. Present remains consist of a roughly square-shaped area (approx. dims. 29m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall with entrance gate at E end of N wall. The remains of a roughly circular-shaped area defined by a scarp is visible to the N and W of the graveyard wall represents the remains of the earlier large circular earthen boundary of the graveyard. The burial ground contains memorials dating from the 18th - 20th centuries.
See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.