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Graveyard

Beggerin Island, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Beggerin Island, 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
Beggerin Island
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Beggerin Grave Yd.
Coordinates
52.36848, -6.40874
SMR number
WX038-004002-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · 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

The church (WX038-004001-) is within an oval raised graveyard (dims c. 83m NW-SE; c. 20-46m NE-SW) defined by field banks. Both are at the NE angle of what was the island of Begerin (dims c. 450m NE-SW: c. 150-200m NW-SE) in the tidal north slob of Wexford Harbour, but since the reclamation work of the mid-19th century is now part of the reclaimed north slob. There is a cross-inscribed stone (WX037-004005-) towards the E edge of the graveyard, but the cross-slab (WX038-004006-) is in the National Museum of Ireland and the cross-slab (WX038-004004-) is now in the Wexford County Museum at Enniscorthy.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Nearby in the register

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

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