Graveyard

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.