What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Galway holds a ruined church called Kilquain Church beside crowded headstones, while grass and shadow swallow the older names. The concrete wall and south entrance mark a living boundary around memories that may stretch back into the 19th century. To walk there is to enter a place where the dead still occupy the land and the church remains their visible anchor.

This subrectangular graveyard (60m E-W; 40m N-S), which was very heavily overgrown at the time of visit, is enclosed by a modern concrete wall. The entrance is in the S wall. The majority of the headstones date to the 20th century but some illegible ones may be of 19th-century date. The remains of ‘Kilquain Church’ (GA108-224----) are in the NW part of the graveyard and it is surrounded by an enclosure (GA108-224002-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 September 2016

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.