What is recorded here
Grave Yard is an active wedge-shaped graveyard beside a medieval church in County Galway, marked by illegible stones and a classical mausoleum for the de Basterots and French families. It sits in low pastureland near Kinvarra Bay, where the boundary wall and busy gateway suggest a place still touched by memory rather than abandoned to myth.
In low-lying pastureland near the shore of Kinvarra Bay. Associated with the medieval church (GA102-029----), which occupies its S end, this roughly wedge-shaped graveyard (c. 75m NW-SE; c. 68m NE-SE) is delimited by a wall. Access is via a gateway at NW. Most of the graveslabs are illegible, the oldest dates to the 18th century. The impressive classicaly inspired mausoleum of the de Basterots and French families is to the E of the church. The graveyard is still in use.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 February 2020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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