Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Farnaght, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farnaght
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.87214, -7.82553
- SMR number
- LE036-021001-
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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 rise in a low-lying, undulating landscape. The graveyard is not depicted on an eighteenth century estate map (Wogan 1750, 26) and it is described as a ‘Burying Ground’ on the OS 6-inch maps. This is a subcircular enclosure (int. dims 85m N-S; 69m E-W) defined by a masonry wall NW-NE and by an earthen bank topped with a collapsed stone wall elsewhere. It has headstones dating from the 18th century, some of whose inscriptions dating from 1777 were recorded in the 1930s (IFC: Schools Collections’ vol. 0214, 345-8). A small cross-inscribed stone (LE036-021006-) is in the graveyard. Outside the enclosure at SW are the foundations of a tower house (LE036-021003-) within a rath (LE036-021002-), and a Church of Ireland church which was built c. 1850-55 as a chapel for the Clements family of Lough Rinn (LE036-006----) is attached to the S. Archaeological supervision (00E0867) of the replacement of the perimeter with a masonry wall NE-SE demonstrated that it was a slight earth and stone bank and the stones had been thrown up from inside. However, it produced no dateable material (Meenan 2001, 2002).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Amended: 7 January 2020
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Wogan, W. 1750 A Book of Maps of the Estates belonging to Nathaniel Clements Esqr. In the Parishes of Mohill & Cloone, in the County of Leitrim. Unpublished folio of manuscript maps in the National Library of Ireland (14 A 16)
Meenan, R. 2002 Farnaght: Graveyard. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 187-8, No. 564. Bray, Wordwell
Meenan, R. 2001 Archaeological Supervision at Farnaght, Co. Leitrim. August – December, 2000. Licence No. 00E0867. Unpublished report, Author
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.