Burial ground

The National Monuments Service's description

Burial ground enclosing the site of a late 17th century Quakers Meeting House (WM030-0113001-) stands on an elevated greenfield site c. 150m N of Main Street, in the town of Moate. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped area, annotated ‘Burial Ground’.
Monument described in 1983 as the remains of a subrectangular-shaped area defined by a post-1700 stone wall. The site of a Quaker's meeting house (WM030-113001-) stands in the SW sector. Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a 'Quaker burial ground on irregular-plan, erected c.1692, containing a collection of mainly eighteenth and nineteenth century upstanding grave markers. Now out of use and heavily overgrown. Plaque built into a wall to the north, now illegible. Remains of former Quaker Meeting House to the south side, built c.1692 and rebuilt c.1768. Complex surrounded by a rubble stone wall, now partially collapsed. This graveyard and the remains of the meeting house (built 1694, rebuilt 1768 and largely demolished c.1930) was originally built by the Clibborn Family of Moate Castle (WM030-112----)' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 15317050).
Burial ground is visible today as a pentagonal-shaped tree-lined enclosure on OSi aerial photography which appears to have been straightened along the E side to form a subrectangular-shaped tree-lined enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. A bullaun stone (WM030-117----) is located outside the W wall of the burial ground.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 10 November 2019