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Graveyard in St. Johnstown

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On flat ground on a valley floor with hills rising to the NE-E-S. The field enclosing the graveyard to the N-E-S is under tillage and there is a farmyard to the W. St. Johnstown tower house (TS062-060001-) is located 110m to the SW. A roughly rectangular graveyard (dims. 32m N-S; 43m E-W) with the church…

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On flat ground on a valley floor with hills rising to the NE-E-S. The field enclosing the graveyard to the N-E-S is under tillage and there is a farmyard to the W. St. Johnstown tower house (TS062-060001-) is located 110m to the SW. A roughly rectangular graveyard (dims. 32m N-S; 43m E-W) with the church (TS062-055----) in the NW quadrant. The graveyard is enclosed by a stone wall (H 1.5m) and entered through a gate in the N wall with a stile on either side. Before this wall was erected the graveyard appears to have been delineated by a scarp (H 0.95m) which runs 3m inside and roughly parallel with the N and W boundary wall. It is not evident along the E and S sides. Headstones are concentrated on the S side of the graveyard and along the E end. According to the OS letters the graveyard ‘much in use’ was ‘surrounded by a low stone wall partly destroyed on southwest and west sides, where the loose stones are built up in their original situation but without cement’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 162 (461)).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS062-055001

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