What is recorded here

Grave Yard on Inis Cealtra holds a subrectangular enclosure on a south-facing slope, its mortared wall guarding St Mary’s church and headstones dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The gate stands beside the church corner while a narrow style cuts further along the north wall, suggesting a place shaped for repeated entry and quiet departure. People may have walked this slope for generations, carrying the dead past stone and water to rest where the island ends.

Situated on a pronounced S-facing slope at the SE end of Inis Cealtra. A subrectangular graveyard (c. 37m NE-SW x 27m NW-SE) defined by a roughly coursed mortared wall fairly even in height all around (int. H 1.06m; T 0.6m; ext. H 1m) with an entrance gate (Wth 1.3m) on the N wall adjacent to the NW corner of the church and a style (Wth 0.2m) further NE along the N wall. St Mary’s church (CL029-009008-) lies within this graveyard and the original perimeter wall extended as far as what is now the S wall of St Brigid’s graveyard (CL029-009007-). The inscribed headstones are of 19th and 20th century date. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 14 October 2015

A medieval Christian graveyard; associated with the monastic site of Inis Cealtra (Hy-713), significant as part of an important early Christian foundation in the Shannon Estuary.

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