Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballyhack, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhack
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.24268, -6.96080
- SMR number
- WX044-018002-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the top of a steep cliff (H c. 30-40m) overlooking the estuary of the Barrow/Nore/Suir, which is to the S. The church of St James and Dunbrody (WX044-018001-) was within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by masonry walls. Some grave-markers are decorated with plain latin crosses in relief. A granite trough (ext. dims 1m x 0.63m; H 0.25m; int. dims 0.82m x 0.44m; D 0.16m) is coffin-shaped and child-sized, and might have been closed by the stone effigy (WX44-033002-) now in Arthurstown village c. 500m to the E. The stone head (WX044-033001-) now in the village also probably came from this church.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 June, 2013
Amended: 9 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Stone troughunder 1 mi
- Millstone quarryunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.