What is recorded here

Grave Yard is the buried memory of Clifden Castle, holding the Eyre family on a sun-warmed slope while the ruined mansion watches from below. One stone marks the 1870s, but the smaller stones in the north-east corner suggest a longer line of deaths, love and loss. The graveyard is small enough to walk in a minute, yet large enough to keep every secret the castle forgot.

On S-facing slope beside road. This roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 40m by c. 45m) was the family plot of the Eyre family of Clifden Castle, the ruined 19th-C mansion situated c. 200m to S. It is bounded by a modern stone wall except on W side where a low bank forms the enclosing element. Only one inscribed graveslab is visible, dating to the 1870s, but there are a number of small stones in NE corner. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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