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Graveyard in Meadstown

Graveyard
Graveyard in Meadstown
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Situated on a rise in s level landscape. The parish church of Clonmaduff (ME030-009----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 40m WNW-ESE; c. 40m NNE-SSW) defined by masonry walls, which according to Dopping (1682-5) were not present at that time (Ellison 1972, 12). The headstones date from c. 1800 to c. 1980 and include two that commemorate the priors of Courtown friary (ME030-010----), an 18th century Franciscan house (Cogan 1862-70, 1, 121-4), that was c. 500m to the SE, which lasted until 1826.
Situated on a rise in s level landscape. The parish church of Clonmaduff (ME030-009----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 40m WNW-ESE; c. 40m NNE-SSW) defined by masonry walls, which according to Dopping (1682-5) were not present at that time (Ellison 1972, 12). The headstones date from c. 1800 to c. 1980 and include two that commemorate the priors of Courtown friary (ME030-010----), an 18th century…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME030-009001

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Pictures: Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Ronnie Nijboer, Wikimedia Commons · CC0; Billy Irwin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Roger Culos, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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