Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Rackwallace, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rackwallace
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rackwallace Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 54.21440, -6.89344
- SMR number
- MO014-014002-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 40m NNW-SSE; c. 40m ENE-WSW) defined by earthen banks. It is thought that burial ceased c. 1930 and most of the headstones are lost but some dating from 1710 to 1794 have been recorded (Ó Dubhtaigh 1962 160-1). A skeleton found N of graveyard indicates that the graveyard was originally more extensive (ibid. 159). (McKenna 1920, 1, 16-38)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 24 November 2016
References
McKenna, Rev. J. E. 1920 Parochial History of the Diocese of Clogher. 2 vols, Enniskillen, Author
Ó Dubhtaigh, B. 1962 The ancient Graveyard of Rackwallace, Co. Monaghan. Clogher Record, vol. 4, No. 3, 155-62.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.