What is recorded here

Indicated is a burial ground in County Galway, Ireland. It holds a vault and a decorated cross for Christopher Ussher, who died in 1884. The oval stone enclosure lies in undulating pastureland near the former demesne of Eastwell House. Grass and shadow have taken much of it back, but the gateway and cross still mark where the dead were kept.

In undulating pastureland, formerly part of the demesne of Eastwell House, the site of which lies 200m to NW. Marked but not named on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an irregularly shaped hachured enclosure. What is visible is a very poorly preserved roughly oval enclosure (N-S c. 65m, E-W 50m), now badly overgrown, enclosed by a stone wall and entered via an arched gateway at NW. In the interior is a burial vault beside which is an elaborately decorated stone cross commemorating 'Christopher Ussher' who died in 1884. 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

A portal dolmen dating to the Neolithic period; its location within a former demesne suggests possible historical continuity of landscape use.

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