What is recorded here

Half a metre of earth still curves around Cummer church like a forgotten arm, holding the graveyard and its 1730 vault for Edmundos de Burgo inside a circle wider than a hundred paces. The byroad to the south may be the last visible fragment of that old boundary, while the faint bank to the north continues the gesture through fields that have long since learned to grow around it. Whatever gathered there before the church gave the place a name, the land has kept the shape of the gathering.

On a slight rise in gently undulating farmland. The slightly curving line of the byroad to S of the church (GA043-085002-), along which the td. boundary runs, appears to preserve part of the line of a large subcircular enclosure (N-S >100m, E-W >85m) from SW to W. From W through N to NNE, its continuation can be traced in a faint curving earthen bank (Wth c. 4m, H 0.5m) in the field to N of the church. The latter, almost centrally placed within the enclosure, is surrounded by a roughly rectangular graveyard within which is a fine burial vault with a corbelled roof. It is dedicated to one 'Edmundos de Burgo' and dated 1730 (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 129-30). The site of a spring well called 'Corr' (ibid.) is indicated on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) 45m WNW of the church, just within the line of the enclosure. 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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