Graveyard or cemetery in Ballypheasan

Graveyard/cemetery

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Graveyard, c.1800, set within ruins of medieval abbey. Comprising variety of limestone upright, recumbent and wall-mounted gravemarkers dating from late-eighteenth to early-twentieth centuries. Earliest legible grave-marker dates to 1797. Rock-faced mausoleum of the Kellys of Essex Lawn, a house located to the north…

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Though no longer in use, the remains of the medieval abbey, together with the collection of grave-markers attest to the long tradition of religious activity on the site, thus placing it centrally in the ecclesiastical history of Roscommon. Artistic detailing is apparent in the execution of many of the carved grave-markers. The cessation of the use of this site appears to coincide with the establishment of St Coman's Cemetery in 1912.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31817043

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