What is recorded here

Inchmore Island in County Longford holds a buried priory where Augustinian stones were reborn as grave markers. The yard stretches sixty metres through scrub, preserving memorials from the 18th to 20th centuries beside its ruined church. What was dismantled for death became death's own architecture, turning monastic wreckage into a field of names.

On the W side of Inchmore Island, in the S end of Lough Gowna. This subrectangular graveyard (c. 61m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) is enclosed by a stone wall and is very heavily overgrown with scrub. There is a church (LF006-032003-) at its S end and remains of an Augustinian priory (LF006-032002-) at its N end. Access is via a wrought-iron gate with an adjoining stile at the S end of the W wall. Numerous architectural fragments from the church and priory have been reused as grave-markers. A number of low uninscribed upright stones are similarly used. Memorials date from the 18th to the 20th centuries. (ITA Survey 1944; Columb 1978, 282-6; 2002, 27-41; Lennon 2005) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

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