Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Gallagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 54.20411, -6.83893
- SMR number
- MO014-019002-
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
Situated on a slight rise with the headwaters of a small SE-NW stream c. 100m to the SW. The present Church of Ireland church of St Columba was built in 1839 (Shirley 1879, 339-42), and is just N of the tower and part of the W wall of the old parish church of Clontibret that survive. Both churches are within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 60-80m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by masonry walls, and some of the early headstones dating from the 18th century, the earliest being 1717, have been recorded (Ó Mearáin and Ó Gallachair 1974)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 25 November 2016
References
Ó Mearáin, L. and Ó Gallachair, Rev. P. 1974 Inscriptions in Clontibret Grave Yard. Clogher Record, vol. 8, No. 2, 228-30.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannog1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.