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Graveyard

Crossmoyle, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Crossmoyle, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Crossmoyle
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.17781, -7.23226
SMR number
MO011-010003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. The original church of St Tigearnach (MO011-010001-) and perhaps other structures like the cloister and church of the Augustinian abbey of Ss Peter and Paul might have been located in the graveyard that incorporates the round tower (MO011-010002-) into its perimeter at W. This is now an oval area (max. dims c. 80m E-W; c. 40-45m N-S) defined by masonry walls with the stone shrine (MO011-010004-) inside the perimeter at S, but at one time it may have been much larger and included the small graveyard around the Romanesque church c. 40m to the ENE. The burials (MO011-010-009-; MO011-010010-) recovered between the graveyards demonstrate this. The headstone inscriptions in both graveyards have been recorded (Mulligan and McMahon 1984, 421-32) and they date generally from c. 1725 in both to c. 1850 at the Romanesque church and to c. 1900 in the main graveyard.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 29 November 2016

References

Mulligan, Rev. P. and T. McMahon 1984 Early Memorials in Clones Round Tower Graveyard; Clones Abbey Grave Yard and St. Tierney's R. C. Graveyard, Roslea. CLogher Record, vol. 11, No. 3, 401-48.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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