Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Forgney, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forgney
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.54130, -7.70009
- SMR number
- LF027-037002-
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with a late-medieval church (LF027-037001-), this subrectangular graveyard (c. 68m E-W; c. 59m N-S) is enclosed by a wide low bank (Wth 3.1-4m; H 0.1-0.6m; ext. H 0.7-1.4m) of earth and stone and an external fosse (Wth 0.5m; D 0.5-1m). The entrance is at ESE. Memorials dating from the 18th to the 19th centuries are visible both within the graveyard and outside its boundary. (ITA Survey 1944; Casey and Rowan 1993, 352-3, Pl. 58; Lennon 2005)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.