What is recorded here

Grave Yard is a burial ground on a south-facing slope in County Galway, Ireland. A quadrangular area roughly forty-five metres wide sits inside an earthen bank and stone wall, while a smaller circular enclosure holds a holy well in its west sector. The earliest visible graves date from the mid-nineteenth century, yet the shape and setting suggest the place may be far older. It is the kind of quiet ground where memory, water and time seem to belong together.

On a S-facing slope in otherwise level grassland. Quadrangular graveyard (E-W c. 45m) enclosed by an earthen bank overlain by a stone wall. In W sector of the interior, there is a small circular enclosure (D 18.2m) defined by an earthen bank which encloses a holy well (GA071-023002-). Though the earliest graves date only from mid-19th C, the monument may be of greater antiquity. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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