Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Abbeylara, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeylara
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.76475, -7.44630
- SMR number
- LF011-036004-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with the Cistercian abbey (LF011-036001-) that lies in its E end; wall footings of an 18th/19th-century church (LF011-036003-) are evident in the NW quadrant. This large subrectangular graveyard (51m E-W; 43m N-S) is enclosed by a stone wall. Access is gained at the NW corner. It is no longer in use and contains memorials dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Numerous architectural fragments, including a dumb-bell pier from the cloister, are visible within it and in the external face of the S wall. Archaeological testing for a proposed treatment plant serving a residential development c. 10m to the N of the NE corner of the boundary wall in 2002 and 2005 revealed no archaeological features or artifacts (Delaney 2008, 251). (Lennon 2005)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.