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Graveyard

Killagowan, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Killagowan, 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
Killagowan
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Coordinates
52.49702, -6.36165
SMR number
WX027-004002-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located at the crest of a N and E-facing slope. The parish church of Meelnagh (WX027-004001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 47m E-W; c. 37m N-S) defined by a masonry wall. Tobermaclura holy well (WX021-027----) is c. 180m to the ENE. Archaeological testing (03E0953) c. 25m to the SE of the graveyard in Ballytarsna townland failed to produce any related material (Stafford 2006).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 18 July, 2012

References

Stafford, E. 2006 Ballytarsna. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavatinos in Ireland, 530, No. 2008. Bray, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

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

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