What is recorded here

Graveyard in Ballagh is a quiet oval of grass and stone in County Wicklow, Ireland. Small uninscribed markers and a granite cross-slab still stand inside an earthen bank, while a shallow ditch and two gaps shape the way people entered. The place may have served as a local burial ground for generations, holding lives now forgotten but still marked by stone.

Situated on a very gentle ENE-facing slope in grassland. In the SW sector of an oval enclosure are several small, uninscribed grave-markers set in rows and a granite cross-slab (WI039-022003-). The enclosure (dims. 45m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) is defined by an earthen bank, with external drystone facing on the better preserved SW side, (Wth 2.5-3.2m; int. H 0.4-1.2m; ext. H 0.9m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.8m) which is not visible at the NE. There are two gaps in the bank; that at the N (Wth 2m) appears to have drystone facing, and that at the S (Wth 1.45m) has bank terminals and a probable causeway over the fosse with a ramp leading up to the interior. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 September 2012

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