What is recorded here

Indicated is a disused L-shaped graveyard in County Leitrim, Ireland, holding the likely first post-Penal Roman Catholic church of Drumshanbo. Two holy-water stoups from that lost church still stand embedded in the roadside wall, marking the place where worship and death once shared one small basin. The graveyard no longer receives burials, but it preserves the shape of a community that built faith under restriction and then stopped coming.

Situated in a low-lying position in an undulating landscape and on the N bank of a small NE-SW stream. The site of what was probably the first post-Penal Roman Catholic church of Drumshanbo (LE023-0280001-) is within an L-shaped graveyard (dims c. 80m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls, which is no longer used for burial. Two holy-water stoups from the church are incorporated into the graveyard wall by the roadside at the NE end. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September, 2008

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