Burial Ground in Creagh, County Galway

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What is recorded here

Immediately to the E of the graveyard (GA088-008----). This trapezoidal-shaped graveyard widens towards its WSW end and is bounded on three sides by much-collapsed stone walls. A field fence delimits the NNW side. Access is gained through a gateway at NW. The interior is divided into four sections by two sunken pathways that dissect one another in the centre. Graves are in lines running ENW-WSW and consist of rectangular sunken depressions (L 2m; Wth 0.8m; D 0.4m) marked by small, uninscribed, iron, ringed crosses (H 0.4m). The burial ground probably dates from the late 19th to the early 20th century.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA088-008003

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