What is recorded here

Graveyard in Gortshaneroe holds the Prittie family and may mark an abbey founded in 540, though no building remains visible. The land has kept death, faith and memory longer than stone, while people came and went without warning. What is missing is not emptiness; it is the shape of what the field still remembers.

Unlocated within townland described in Lewis's Topographical dictionary of Ireland as 'The site of the ruins of an old church (TN026-085001), with a burial ground attached, which is the place of sepulture of the Prittie family. An abbey of which there are no vestiges, is said to have been founded here in 540' (Lewis 1837, 187).s Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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