Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Lemonfield, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lemonfield
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. Yd.
- Coordinates
- 52.59625, -8.64674
- SMR number
- LI013-080002-
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
Situated on a gentle rise, surrounded partly by mature woodland and overlooking pasture to S. Indicated on the 1924 OS 6-inch map as 'G. Yd.'; a sub-rectangular area (c. 80m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by a barb wire fence. The ruins of a church (LI013-080001-), are evident in the N quadrant of the graveyard. A grave has been built into the E wall of the church. The graveyard is still in infrequent use. The headstones visible date to the 20th Century.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.