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Graveyard in Balreagh

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A graveyard (WM0130038---) with the remains of Balreagh Church (WM013-038---) standing the centre. The graveyard consists of an oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 38m N-S; 47m E-W) enclosed by a slight bank and post 1700 stone wall with entrance gate and stile at E. The presence of an enclosing bank may be the remains of…

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A graveyard (WM0130038---) with the remains of Balreagh Church (WM013-038---) standing the centre. The graveyard consists of an oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 38m N-S; 47m E-W) enclosed by a slight bank and post 1700 stone wall with entrance gate and stile at E. The presence of an enclosing bank may be the remains of an earlier earthen graveyard enclosure. The interior of the graveyard is now covered with scrub vegetation and rises towards the centre. It contains a number of nineteenth and twentieth century tombstones but is no longer used for burial. Outside the graveyard from NW-N-NE are a series of ridge and furrow cultivation ridges running roughly E-W contained within a sub-rectangular shaped field defined by an earthen bank (approx. area 0.6 hectares). Aerial photographs taken between 1968 and 1970 show cultivation earthworks between the motte and the graveyard (CUCAP AVO065-6; CUCAP BDV083-4).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM013-038001

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  • Maker not stated on source page, theirishaesthete.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, irisharchaeology.org
  • Thomas Gibbons, www.westmeathexaminer.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Bridget Neville, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Picture: Ireland In Ruins
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