Burying Ground in Derrane, graveyard in County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

The rectangular graveyard (dims 53m NWE-SE; 40m NE-SW) of Derrane Abbey (RO040-0004001-) defined by masonry walls is now extended to the SE (dims c. 55m NW-SE; c. 55m NE-SW). The older part has the head of a cross (RO040-040004-) and about ten architectural fragments (RO036-039004-). A Roman Catholic church is now outside the old graveyard at NW on the probable site of the abbey church. A fragment of a wall (L 11.7m NE-SW; T 0.9-1m; H 0.6-0.8m) with a taller section (H 2.3m) at its SW end survives inside the NW wall of the graveyard and might be the original wall of the abbey graveyard.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO040-004002

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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