What is recorded here

Graveyard in Dunganstown West is a walled Irish burial place beside Dunganstown House, with early 18th century graveslabs still lying in its western half. A new church appeared near the house around 1670 according to Price, suggesting the graveyard served a local household and parish rather than a distant abbey. The smaller eastern gate may have let residents walk straight from the house to the dead, blending domestic life and memory.

A sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (dims. 64m ENE-WNW x 92m WNW- ESE) enclosed by a stone wall with entrance gates to ESE and second smaller gate to E which was presumably a route to Dunganstown House (WI031-023----). Price (1967, 441) noted that 'a new church was built near Dunganstown House in the latter part of the seventeenth century (? c. 1670)'. There are a number of early 18th century graveslabs in-situ in the W half of the graveyard and some which have recently been moved to their present location against the N wall of the graveyard. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 July 2013

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