What is recorded here

Rosserk lost its open graveyard to time, yet death still occupies the friary through scattered stones. Mangans sleep beneath the bell tower, an unknown person lies under a broken 1857 slab, and Jesus’ initials mark another chamber. The burying ground stopped being a field and became a building, forcing remembrance upward into brick and roof.

At Rosserk Fransican Third Order Regular friary (MA022-082001-). In 1604 the friary consisted of ‘1 acre in which there was a church and cemetery and other ruinous buildings’ O’Hara (1898, 259, note 1). There is now no trace of a graveyard at ground level. A number of graveslabs or memorials of 18th-/19th-century date can be seen within the friary church. A tomb, dedicated to the Mangan family, as well as a broken graveslab, dated 1857, are located beneath the bell tower, and another graveslab, fragmented into two, inscribed with INRI and HIS (Jesus Hominen Salvator), flanked by a cross and two carved heads, is located in the chapel/transept. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 July 2020

A medieval Christian friary graveyard, 14th–17th century. It is significant as part of the religious and monastic heritage of the region, associated with the Franciscan Third Order Regular.

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