What is recorded here

Ballysaggart Old Burial Ground is a rectangular grave yard beside Ballysaggart friary on the coast edge in County Donegal. Its low earthen bank still marks the boundary, leaving the southeast open to the sea wind. People died, were carried there and forgotten by name. The stones are gone, but the shape remains, holding what the coast took back.

Marked as a graveyard on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A rectangular area, 21.5m x 22m, enclosed by a low earthen bank (except on the SE side). There is slight evidence for a fosse on the NW. The site is located close to Ballysaggart friary (DG098-031) on the coast edge. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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