What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on a low ridge in County Mayo, watching damp pasture in both directions while its oldest rectangular chamber holds uninscribed markers barely visible through the sod. The site grew from that small elevated platform into a larger concrete-walled area and later a trapezoidal extension, pulling more of the ridge into its keeping. Its stones and ruined church suggest generations placed their dead where the ground stayed firm and the view remained wide.

Located on elevated ground/low ridge, overlooking expanses of damp or boggy pasture to NE and SW. A subrectangular walled graveyard (c. 30m N−S; c. 50m E−W) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, with the church (MA092-078001) in the NW corner. By the time of the 1917 edition the graveyard had been extended to S−SW. This enlarged area encompasses a SW-facing slope and is enclosed by a modern concrete wall. A more recent trapezoidal extension has been appended to NE. The earlier phase of the graveyard, as shown on the 1838 map, can be traced as a roughly rectangular slightly raised area (c. 45m E–W; c. 30m N–S) defined by a grass-covered scarp, with the ruined church at its NW corner. It encompasses the higher, level ground of the ridge. This area is distinguished by a scattering of small, uninscribed gravemarkers that barely protrude above the sod, and by formal headstones and table tombs dating to the 19th-century. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 May 2022

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