Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Clonlea Graveyard
Greenan, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Graveyard
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- Clonlea Graveyard, Grinan Lough Road, Greenan, Newry, Co Down, BT34
- Townland
- Greenan
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.13672, -6.28945
- Date of survey
- 16 August 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/10/022
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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
Small raised graveyard set back on W side of Grinan Lough Road and bounded by dry stone rubble wall, on the E side of which is a recess containing three stone steps leading up into the graveyard proper.
This is raised level with the wall head and contains many small roughly dressed memorial stones, all facing E. To centre, in a line running N-S and facing E, are three large dressed stone crosses each on a stone base. That to centre is 19thC; its rear (W) face is inscribed (mostly illegible) with text which includes “Patrick Mooney” and the date 1883. The N cross has no text but each angle at its crossing is carved into a recessed arc. The S cross is very worn. Inscribed on W side is “P. McM” and 1842. Its base is incised with swirling (Celtic) ornamentation.
Historical information
This graveyard is said to be the site of a former mass house. It is shown on the 1834 OS 6” map. The Archaeological Survey only mentions the N and S crosses but not the central one. It states that the upper portion of the S cross was decorated with carving (now weathered) of “angel scrolls and panels of interlace” and that they were 19th C copies of the nearby Kilbroney Cross.
Primary Source:
1. PRONI OS 6” map 1st edition (1834), Co Down sheet 51.
2. Margaret Harty, ’St Mary’s Clonallon – a short history of the Burren Parish’. December, 1993.
3. M. Jope (ed), ‘Archaeological Survey of County Down’ (Belfast 1966), p.301.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A small graveyard some local significance only.
Nearby in the register
- 32 Greenan Lough RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 54 Greenan RoadDemolishedunder 1 mi
- 17 Greenanlough RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.