Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Derryvony, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryvony
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Galloon Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 54.15443, -7.41533
- SMR number
- CV011-016----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not marked on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map (surveyed 1836) it is named on subsequent editions and revisions. On inspection in 1989 it was found to consist of an oval area (int. dims. 18m NW-SE; 8.4m NE-SW) enclosed by a narrow, shallow trench from SE-S-NW and elsewhere by a hedge. Apart from a number of small low stones protruding above the surface of the site, there were no visible remains. Variously known locally as 'Callaghan's Burial Ground' (SMR file) or as Gulldoon or Gullion Burial Ground (Gabhl Liuin - The Forked Inlet of Sorrow) or (Cuilleann - The Holly Bush) (http://www.drumlane.ie/index.php?page=the-bloody-pass) and is believed to have had a connection with the site of the Battle of Bloody Pass, c. 70m to NW (CV011-027----). Davies (1948, 94) suggested that it may have been an early ecclesiastical site, the name of which has been forgotten. (O'Donovan 1995, no. 1732)
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 15 February 2018
References
O'Donovan, P.F. 1995 Archaeological inventory of county Cavan. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Davies, O. 1948 The churches of county Cavan. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 78, 73-118.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.