Graveyard or cemetery in Athlone and Bigmeadow

What is recorded here

Convent cemetery on irregular plan, opened 1858, having cast-iron grave markers and a cut limestone Celtic cross set within round iron railings on cut stone plinth. Surrounded by rubble limestone wall with Ward Boundary marker. Located to rear of Convent of Mercy (15000267).

An interesting small graveyard associated with the Convent of Mercy (15000267). The boundary wall is an attractive feature in the streetscape and the inscribed Ward Boundary marker is of historical interest.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15000398

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pat Byrne, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Nigel Thompson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sgbrito at Portuguese Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Christophe Krief, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Peter Gerken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Engraving by Johannes Tangena. Leyden: Johannes Tangena, Print en Bockverkooper 1691., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain