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Graveyard

Edergole, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Edergole, 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
Edergole
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
54.12202, -7.05968
SMR number
MO018-044----

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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 on the E-facing slope of a hillock, which is on an E-W ridge. The site of the Roman Catholic church (MO018-044001-) is at the NE angle of a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 28m NE-SW at SE to c. 50m NE-SW) defined by stone-faced scarps with hedges on all sides except the SE where a masonry wall borders a road. The headstones date generally from 1724 to about 1945 but there is no evidence of a headstone to the Dowd family dated 1574 which was found in 1898 (McKenna 1920, 1, 559). The gravestone (MO018-044002-) of two Catholic archbishops of Armagh, the brothers Bernard and Ross McMahon, dated 1750, is close to the path at the base of the slope (Rushe 1916, 21-4).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revision: 30 November 2016

References

Rushe, D. C. 1916 Monaghan in the Eighteenth century. Dublin and Dundalk, Gill and Tempest

McKenna, Rev. J. E. 1920 Parochial History of the Diocese of Clogher. 2 vols, Enniskillen, Author

Nearby in the register

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

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