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Graveyard

Ballylusk (Gorey By.), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Ballylusk, County Wexford, 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
Ballylusk (Gorey By.)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kilbride Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.72937, -6.37231
SMR number
WX002-024002-

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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)
  • 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

Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape, with a N-S stream just to the E. A church (WX002-024001-) is associated with a graveyard marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but there is no evidence of burial around the cairn of the church within the ecclesiastical enclosure (WX002-024003-).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

date of upload: 27 January, 2012

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.

Nearby in the register

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

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