Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Barrysfarm, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrysfarm
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.47602, -8.43268
- SMR number
- LI032-147003-
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
At the N end of the historic settlement of Hospital (LI032-147001-), with Kenmare Castle (LI032-147005-) and the River Mahore 110m to N. The medieval church ruins (LI032-147002-) of the Hospital of Any belonging to the Order of the Knights Hospitallers dedicated to St. John the Baptist stands in N quadrant of graveyard which has been extended to the W. 19th century St. John the Baptist's R.C. Church stands in NW quadrant of graveyard. Site of St. John's Well (LI032-147004-) 67m to N. The graveyard consists of a rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 54m N-S x 83m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at NE. The N boundary of the present churchyard forms the townland boundary with Millfarm. The graveyard contains memorials dating from the post-1700 period with some architectural fragments of the church ruins reused as gravemarkers.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Knights Hospitallersunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.