Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Graveyard
Drumgath, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Graveyard
- Date of construction
- Pre 1600
- Address
- Graveyard, on Drumlough Road, Rathfriland, Newry, BT34 2HR
- Townland
- Drumgath
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.20199, -6.21197
- Date of survey
- 08 July 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/09/004
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A raised, roughly circular graveyard on E side of Drumlough Road.
Accessed by two granite steps flanked by lined cement-rendered square pillars supporting a broad cast-iron gate with ball finials.
Graveyard contains many early 18thC roughly dressed granite gravestones and smaller (possibly earlier) undressed memorial stones. Many are etched with crosses, their inscriptions are partially eroded. Most of these memorials are organised in a linear fashion and all face E (with their plain backs to road). There are some 19thC memorials in slate and granite, one of which is enclosed by railings.
On S side is the remains of a ruinous segmental vault (earth embankments gone and end walls gone) which may have been a burial vault or a grotto.
Historical information
The parish priest believes that the barrel vault is the chancel of an old church which once stood in the graveyard. The latter is shown in its present form on the 1834 OS 6” map.
It is a scheduled monument.
Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1834) Co Down sheet 47 (PRONI OS 6/3/47/1)
2. Sites & Monuments Record Number Dow 047:042
2. Parish Priest, Father Mooney.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This site is of some local interest.
Nearby in the register
- 72 Drumlough RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- St Patricks RC ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Ball Alley PavillionPavillionunder 1 mi
- OutbuildingOutbuildingsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.