Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leighlinbridge
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73502, -6.97734
- SMR number
- CW012-070006-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Found prior to 1793. 'Numerous urns placed in low, narrow and long vaults' were 'of coarse earthenware … each closed by a cover … The garden under which they were found is the site or cemetery of a monastery founded by one of the Carews for the Carmelites ...' (Anon. 1793, 274; JRSAI 1970, 109). Carmelite priory was located SE of bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Carmelite friarsunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.