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Graveyard or cemetery in Loughcrew

Graveyard/cemetery
Graveyard or cemetery in Loughcrew
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Graveyard or cemetery in Loughcrew gives you octagonal gate piers and an arched opening in the boundary wall, while the medieval church survives in ruins. A familiar approach to property: get the entrance lovely, then bring everyone round the long way so they don’t ask about the rest.

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Graveyard, with medieval interments, having eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stone grave markers. Remains of medieval church to site. Segmental-arched opening set in graveyard boundary walls. Rubble stone boundary walls with octagonal gate piers and cast-iron double gates.
This graveyard has fine examples of grave markers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, some of which have carved decorative details. The medieval grave markers and church add archaeological interest to the site. The church is associated with Saint Oliver Plunkett.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14401507

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Pictures: Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; John M, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; James Fergusson, after E. Conwell, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Haydn Hammerton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Bill Griffiths, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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