Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Inchmore Island, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchmore Island
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.82324, -7.56790
- SMR number
- LF006-032001-
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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 the W side of Inchmore Island, in the S end of Lough Gowna. This subrectangular graveyard (c. 61m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) is enclosed by a stone wall and is very heavily overgrown with scrub. There is a church (LF006-032003-) at its S end and remains of an Augustinian priory (LF006-032002-) at its N end. Access is via a wrought-iron gate with an adjoining stile at the S end of the W wall. Numerous architectural fragments from the church and priory have been reused as grave-markers. A number of low uninscribed upright stones are similarly used. Memorials date from the 18th to the 20th centuries. (ITA Survey 1944; Columb 1978, 282-6; 2002, 27-41; Lennon 2005)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Fortificationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.