What is recorded here

Grave Yard is a small rectangular burial place in County Limerick where the ruined Castletown church forms its north boundary. The O'Brien family of Coona has a memorial inside the west end of that church, while low uninscribed stones south of the building mark older plots. Coonagh castle and the Cahernahallia River lie close to the west, giving the quiet grassland a long shadowed presence.

Situated in grassland, with Coonagh castle (LI025-002002-) and Cahernahallia River 215m and 160m to W respectively. Castletown church forms N boundary of small rectangular-shaped graveyard described in 1840 as 'the supposed, ruin of a Friary. The walls are about 10 feet [3m] high, and in length and breadth respectively about 40 feet [12m] and 20 feet [6m]. It is now used as a burial-place, though but few interments take place in it' (OSNB, 353). Ruins of church stand in the N quadrant of a rectangular-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 25m N-S x 32m E-W) enclosed by a post and wire fence with stone wall and entrance gate at S end of short stretch of E wall. Cluster of low uninscribed stones to S of church mark burial plots, 19th century inscribed memorial to the O'Brien family of Coona inside W end of church. No evidence of any low stones or possible gravemarkers in area to N and W of church. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 04 March 2019

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