What is recorded here

Grave Yard occupies low-lying ground in Gleann an Mháma, northeast of the Joyce River, where older stones and newer graves share one enclosed rectangle. The eastern part keeps nineteenth-century slabs and two Latin crosses, while the western part accepts continuing local death. The place has grown from a small irregular field into a formal graveyard, marking how the community kept claiming its dead across generations.

On low-lying land in the centre of Gleann an Mháma and NE of the Joyce River. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed irregularly shaped graveyard (c. 45m by c. 30m). Now much enlarged, rectangular and enclosed. It is divided into two parts: the larger W part containing modern graves, and E part containing older 19th-C graveslabs and plain headstones, two of which display Latin crosses. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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