Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Glen, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glen
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caldragh Church Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caldragh Church Yard (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.66767, -7.61120
- SMR number
- LF020-023----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a S-facing slope. Named 'Caldragh Church Yard' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and 'Site of' on the 1914 ed. This townland was known as: 'Gleann na n-Easbog, Vallis Episcoporum, Valley of the Bishops’ and was so named because ‘it contains an old graveyard, in which, according to tradition, four bishops are buried' (OSNB, Ardagh parish, 1836-7, book 4, 51). The OS Letters (1837) refer to it as a 'churchyard’ (OSL, 39). The English form of the name 'Caldragh' derives from the Irish Cealltrach meaning ‘old churchyard’: the element ceall meaning ‘church’, but the name was generally used to refer to a place of burial. The name has also come to be associated with locations used as the burial grounds of unbaptised children. However, there is no evidence to suggest that a children's burial ground existed here. The site is occupied by a modern house. A quantity of bone was discovered during the excavation of the house foundations (local information).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 April 2013
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.