What is recorded here
Old Grave Yard is a graveyard at the SW angle of Lough Nacarriga in County Leitrim, Ireland. It sits in gently undulating lowland about 150m W of a bay, near Coolnakill church and a grass-covered oval enclosure with an earth and stone bank. The place is called a graveyard, yet no burial has been found there, leaving its true use and history uncertain.
Situated in gently undulating lowland c. 150m W of a bay (max. dims c. 150m N-S; c. 130m E-W at N) at the SW angle of Lough Nacarriga. Coolnakill church (LE024-023001-) is towards the W end of a grass-covered oval enclosure (dims 75m E-W; 52m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (at S: Wth 3.5m; H 1.1m) and hedge with an entrance (Wth 3.5m) at SSE, but there is no evidence of burial.
Date of upload: 23 September, 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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