Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Graveyard (Cofl) Lawford Street, Moneymore, Magherafelt
Moneymore, Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Graveyard
- Date of construction
- 1760-1779
- Address
- Graveyard (Cofl) Lawford Street, Moneymore, Magherafelt
- Townland
- Moneymore
- Council
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.69377, -6.67165
- Date of survey
- 01 December 2000
- HB reference
- HB09/06/015
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A Church of Ireland graveyard which contained the former C of I church of St John.
The graveyard is bound by a random rubble stone wall with entrance from Lawford Street. Little remains of the former church building. Entrance is from Lawford Street with square stone rubble piers and double wrought iron gates. The graveyard is fairly full of graves and many headstones.
Historical information
The graveyard is the site of the second church built in the Parish of Desertlyn in the Archdiocese of Armagh. The first church was built in the townland of Ballymully in 1622 and the second was built in Lawford Street in 1767, the ruins of which are barely discernible.
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1832 Londonderry sh. 46.
2. O.S. Map 1832 Rev. 1856 Londonderry sh. 46.
3. St John’s Church, Moneymore – A Short Sketch of Parish Church
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
An interesting graveyard of the Church of Ireland spanning the Georgian period. It has substantial stone boundary wall and much history of the Desertlyn Parish contained within its walls.
Nearby in the register
- Cottage/Outbuildings atHouseunder 1 mi
- Aka Grey GablesHouseunder 1 mi
- St John’s Church (C of I)Churchunder 1 mi
- The Brewery Bridge, Turnaface Bridge, Moneymore, MagherafeltBridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.