Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mohill
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92140, -7.86416
- SMR number
- LE032-068003-
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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
Situated on a slight E-facing slope within Mohill town, with a small N-S stream that flows down to Lough Rinn just to the E. In 1620 Henry Crofton acquired the rectory and the medieval parish church of Mohill, which were on the site of St. Manchan’s monastery (LE032-068001-) along with 600 acres (MacCuarta 1999, 130), but he added a chapel (ME032-068002-) and a tomb (LE032-068004-) for himself (Logan 1971, 327-8). The sites of these are within the graveyard (LE032-068003-) around the present Church of Ireland church which was built c. 1815 (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 376). The nature of the tomb is not known graveyard is a sub-rectangular area (dims c. 90m N-S; c. 30-60m E-W) defined by masonry walls, with memorials dating from 1754 to the present.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 December 2019
References
Logan, J. 1971 Tadg O'Roddy and two surveys of Co. Leitrim. Journal of Cumann Seanchas Breifne (Breifne Historical Society) 4 (14), 318-34.
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Mac Cuarta, B. (ed.) 1999 Leitrim Plantation papers. 1620-1622. Journal of Cumann Seanchas Breifne (Breifne Historical Society) 9, no. 35, 114-39.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.