What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Galway holds church ruins and a sculpted stone head on a slight rise above a small stream. Cut fragments from the broken church became grave markers, turning sacred architecture into personal memory. The place still distinguishes itself because people kept shaping its stones long after the building collapsed.

Situated on a slight rise in gently undulatingpasture land that falls towards a small stream to the SW. This rectangular graveyard (c. 48m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) contains the ruins of a church (GA104-148004-). A 17th-century graveslab (GA104-148008-) lies within the church and a sculpted stone head (GA104-148009-) is set in the ground c. 7.5m to the SW of its W gable. Numerous cut-stone fragments from the church have been used as grave-markers. A survey of the gravestone inscriptions was undertaken between 1995 and 1997 (Chapple 1997; 2005, 181). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 10 January 2014

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