Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Tirkeenan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tirkeenan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24495, -6.95976
- SMR number
- MO009-044----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the W-facing slope of a drumlin. A small triangular area (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 50m N-S at E) with the apex at W between the main road from Monaghan to Castleshane (N2) and a minor road off it to the NE is described in italic lettering as a ‘Grave Yard’ only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The area to the E became the location where St Macarthan’s Roman Catholic Cathedral was built in 1861-92 under Bishops Mac Nally and James Donnelly to a design of James Joseph McCarthy in the gothic revival style (McKenna 1920, 1, 110-17). No visible evidence of the graveyard survives. It may have been attached to the Roman Catholic chapel of Latlorcan which was c. 450m to the SE, although no reference is made to it (Moriarty 2012).
Date of revised upload: 13 December 2017
References
Moriarty, M. 2012 Old Latlorcan Graveyard. Clogher Record, vol. 21, No. 1, 117-142.
McKenna, Rev. J. E. 1920 Parochial History of the Diocese of Clogher. 2 vols, Enniskillen, Author
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Market cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.