Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Abbeyshrule, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyshrule
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.58016, -7.65679
- SMR number
- LF023-113002-
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
Circa 30m to the NE of the Cistercian abbey (LF023-113----). This rectangular burial ground(100m NE-SW; 62m NW-SE) is enclosed by a 19th-century stone wall. It is no longer is use and memorials date from the 17th to the 20th centuries. A possible cross-slab (LF023-113003-), four late-medieval graveslabs (LF023-113004-, LF023-113010-, LF023-113011-, LF023-113012-), an architectural fragment (LF023-113005-) and a 17th-century graveslab (LF023-113007-) are located within it. A high cross (LF023-113006-) formerly located here was moved to the sacristy of the RC church in Abbeyshrule (see LF023-129----).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.