Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballytory Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballytory Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20858, -6.40994
- SMR number
- WX053-041001-
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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
Situated on a slight S-facing slope. The terrier or commentary of the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map of Tacumshin in NLI (ms 725: microfilm; P 7384; N 6380) mentions an old chapel at Ballytory, and a chapel dedicated to All Saints at Ballytory is listed by Synnott writing c. 1680 (Hore 1862, 68; 1921, 60). An area known locally as the graveyard produced evidence of burials when an attempt was made to reclaim it in the 1970s. This is a rectangular area (dims 15m E-W; 10m N-S) of rough grass and scrub that remains undisturbed.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 March, 2014
References
Hore, H. F. 1862 An account of the barony of Forth, in the county of Wexford, writtten at the close of the seventeenth century. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 7, 53-84.
Hore, P.H. 1921 The barony of Forth, Part 2. The Past 2, 38-99.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.