What is recorded here

Dosos Graveyard stands on a slight Galway rise, its D-shaped stone wall enclosing centuries of death and memory. Headstones from the 1800s and 1900s crowd the grass, but older graveslabs and unmarked holes suggest bodies buried long before written records reached the place. A mound barrow sits nearby, local story claiming it hides a lost friary, while a holy bush and well complete the circle of sacred ground. The graveyard does not ask to be believed; it waits to be witnessed.

On a slight rise in hilly grassland. This well-preserved D-shaped graveyard (c. 45m E-W) with straight (L c. 65m) NNW-SSE side is enclosed by a mortared stone wall with access at W. It contains mainly 19th- and 20th-century headstones but older burials are indicated by inscribed graveslabs and uninscribed grave-markers. A well (GA132-013002-) lies c. 50m to the N and there is a mound barrow (GA132-033----) c. 40m to the WNW; a 'friary' (GA132-013003-) is said to have been located at the latter monument(O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 515). A holy bush (GA132-013004-) is also associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2020

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