Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Glebe (rathcline By., Rathcline Ed), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (rathcline By., Rathcline Ed)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.64459, -8.00387
- SMR number
- LF017-013004-
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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
Centrally located within an ecclesiastical enclosure (LF017-013003-). This subrectangular graveyard (48m E-W; 45m N-S) is enclosed by a stone wall. Access is via a wrought-iron gate with an adjacent stone stile at the S end of the E wall. A late-medieval church (LF017-013001-) is centrally located within the interior. Midway along the S wall there is a blocked up, pointed arch gateway (H 3m; Wth 2.4m), which appears to have been the original entrance to the graveyard. The wall (ext. H 1m; int. H 1.6m) on either side of it measures approx. 0.9m thick and it appears to be medieval in date. The W side of the gateway is supported by a buttress (D 0.85m; Wth 0.9m) that projects to the S beyond the graveyard wall. Memorials date from the mid-17th century to the present day; the earliest legible example (LF017-013006-) is dated 1650 (Lennon 2005). A graveslab (LF017-013005-) within the church is dated 1696. (ITA Survey 1944; Cahill 1984, 184-5)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.