What is recorded here

Grave Yd. holds a strange paradox: rows of plain concrete crosses replaced older uninscribed stones during a twentieth-century clean-up, erasing unique marks while preserving the dead beneath. The walled chamber sits beside Lough Mask, its southern boundary removed to make room for more lives, and a bullaun stone still waits inside for hands that remember water and prayer.

Located on the W shores of Lough Mask. This graveyard is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a trapezoidal walled area (c. 35M N−S; c. 40m E−W at N end, c. 20m at S end) with a church (MA117-009001-) indicated in the N half; on the 1929 edition it is shown as a somewhat larger, rectangular walled area (48m E−W; 57m N−S). The W, N and E walls are stone-built, with stone and mortar coping. The S wall of the graveyard has been removed and the graveyard extended to S and SE. The interior is grass-covered. There are 19th and 20th−century headstones, occasional graveslabs, and rectangular graveplots with concrete surrounds. The graveyard underwent a ‘clean-up’ in the second half of the in the 20th-century; there are multiple N−S rows of low, plain concrete crosses, which appear to have replaced traditional uninscribed, stone gravemarkers, a few of which are extant at the site of the church (MA117-009001-). There is a bullaun stone (MA117-009003-) in the grave yard. Image: MA117-009002-_01.JPG viewed from NW Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 July 2017

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.