What is recorded here

Grave Yard is a vanished burial ground on a Galway ridge, mapped as a small field but now hidden beneath overgrowth and rock. It may have held bodies for generations before the land swallowed the marks, forcing the dead to disappear as quickly as the living forgot them.

On a ridge in undulating grassland, it lies immediately E of the td. boundary. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small subrectangular area and labelled 'Old Grave Yard'. On 3rd ed. (1920), it appears as a D-shaped field (c. 35m by c. 30m). This field is now totally covered in overgrowth which mantles rock outrop. No visible surface trace of the graveyard survives. 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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