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Graveyard

Church Hill, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Church Hill, 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
Church Hill
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Burial Ground
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
54.11692, -6.69877
SMR number
MO020-020002-

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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)
  • 1811 · 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 a hilltop known as Mullandoy (Livingstone 1966, 137) with higher hills to the N and S, and on the NE shore of Lough Muckno. The site of the original parish church of Muckno (MO020-020001-) is within a raised subcircular or oval graveyard (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW) defined by the remnants of an earthen bank at W (Wth 2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m) but largely by a stone-faced scarp (H 1.2-1.4m), with mature deciduous trees on the perimeter. There is a gateway at W and the graveyard is protected by external iron railings. The few headstones date from c. 1790 to c. 1820 and have been recorded (ibid. 150-1) and part of the octagonal shaft (dims 0.24m x 0.24m; H 0.47m) of a font from the graveyard of Mullandoy has been acquired by Monaghan County Museum (Walsh 1983, 177).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 30 November 2016

References

Livingstone, Rev. P. 1966 The Parish and Townlands of Muckno. Clogher Record, vol. 6, No. 1, 137-90.

Walsh, A. 1983 Monaghan County Museum Archaeological Acquisitions 1976-82. Clogher Record 11, 165-83.

Nearby in the register

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

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