Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Cornacullew, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornacullew
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.88758, -7.69562
- SMR number
- LF002-006003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a low hill, immediately to the N of a small stream. This subrectangular burial ground (82.5m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) is enclosed from SW-N-ENE by a stone wall and from ENE-S-SW by a post-and-wire fence, where it is bounded by the stream. The principal entrance is a wrought-iron gate and adjacent stile at NE. There is a secondary entrance, also a wrought-iron gate, at SW. Memorials mainly date from the 18th to the 20th centuries but the earliest recorded inscription is dated 1670 (Lennon 2005). In addition, there are a considerable number of low, upright and larger, flat, uninscribed stones. The burial ground is still in use. A holy well (LF002-006001-) and its associated holy tree (LF002-006005-) lie immediately beyond the stream to the SW.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 7 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.