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Burial Ground is a graveyard in Kilmacleague West, County Waterford, Ireland. It occupies the south end of a narrow spur between the Kilmacleague Pill and the Tramore Back Strand. The Kilmacleague parish church survives only as foundations beside the burial area. A rectangular graveyard measured about 40 metres east to west and 30 metres north to south appeared on the 1840 Ordnance Survey map around that church.

Located at the S end of a N-S spur between the estuary of the NE-SW Kilmacleague Pill to the E and the reclaimed lands of the Tramore Back Strand to the W. The parish church of Kilmacleague (WA027-019001-) survives as foundations. There is no evidence of the graveyard described as 'deserted' by O'Donovan c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 10-11) and depicted as a rectangular area (dims. c. 40m E-W; c. 30m N-S) around the church on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 10 June 2011

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