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What is recorded here

Abbay Grey occupied the south-east corner of a disused Galway graveyard, visible only as a broken rectangular line on an old survey map. The surrounding bank of earth and stone still holds the space, though every marker has surrendered to soil and time. What remained was a ghost shape, waiting for someone to imagine the hands that first drew its edges.

Within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA033-050004-); it stood in SE section of the now disused graveyard. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular area, aligned N-S, defined by a broken line. No visible surface trace of it survives. The graveyard, roughly square in plan (L/Wth c. 30m), is enclosed by a poorly preserved bank of earth and stone. Apart from a small number of randomly placed stones, there is no visible surface trace of any grave-markers. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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