Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
O'Grogan Memorial
Cranfield, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of listing
- 16 October 1974
- Date of delisting
- 19 March 2002
- Date of construction
- 1650 - 1699
- Address
- O'Grogan Memorial, Cranfield Graveyard, Cranfield Road, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Cranfield
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.70406, -6.36396
- Date of survey
- 25 September 1999
- HB reference
- HB20/03/003 B
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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
Demolished or otherwise removed from the site.
No description was provided in the first survey in 1971. From a photograph it appears to have been an upright slab of stone of rectangular shape with angled top corners, bearing an inscription in raised letters.
Historical information
Erected to the memory of Daniel O'Grogan who died in 1696.
Nothing of special significance or importance or local associational interest is known regarding the person commemorated, except that there is a townland called Groggan to the north-west of Randalstown, which was spelled Grogan in the early 19th century. Originally listed in 1974. Date when demolished or removed from the site not known. The headstone stood within the area of a scheduled monument, no. ANT49: 49.
The church was built probably in the 13th century, and was ruinous by the early 17th century.
References – Primary Sources
1. Inscription on slab.
Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, West Antrim (Belfast, 1970), p 22 (but refers to church rather than graveyard).
2. D.A. Chart, E.E. Evans, and H.C. Lawlor, A Preliminary Survey of the Ancient Monuments of Northern Ireland (HMSO, Belfast, 1940), p 42 (but refers to church rather than graveyard).
3. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 19: Parishes of County Antrim VI, 1830, 1833, 1835-38 (Belfast, 1993), pp 32, 71 (but refers to the church rather than the graveyard, and the only reference to a memorial is to a Captain Hagan's tomb).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Demolished or otherwise removed from the site.
Nearby in the register
- Henry MemorialMausoleumunder 1 mi
- Horse walk at 13 Ballynacooley RoadFarm Buildingsunder 1 mi
- Claremont CottageDemolishedunder 1 mi
- 124 Staffordstown RoadHouse1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.