What is recorded here
Scartnamarve Grave Yard holds small randomly placed markers beneath hazel bushes on a low hill in County Galway. The rectangular ground measures twenty-five metres long and fifteen metres wide, waiting for someone brave enough to walk its hidden paths.
In pastureland on the S-facing side of a low hill. This roughly rectangular burial ground (25.2m NNW-SSE; 14.7m WSW-ENE), which is heavily overgrown with hazel bushes, is delimited by a low field boundary. Burials are marked by small randomly placed grave-markers (av. H 0.33m; base Wth 0.34m; top Wth 0.13m; T 0.1m).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 31 January 2020
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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