What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Longford holds an irregular stone-walled chamber where eighteenth-century memories still stand beside a medieval church shadow. Sir William Gleadowe Newcomen gave the gate in 1798, carving his name into the pier as if entering death required the same ceremony as entering life. The nearby church of St Catherine has vanished, leaving the graveyard to keep what the building forgot.

Associated with a medieval church (LF021-033001-), within a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (LF021-033----). This irregularly shaped graveyard (dims. 110m E-W; 86m N-S) is enclosed by a stone wall of late-18th century date. Inscribed memorials date from the 18th century onwards. A memorial stone is incorporated into one of the piers of the gateway accessing the graveyard. It reads: 'This Gate is A Donation of Sir Will(ia)m Gleadowe Newcom[e]n B[aronet] given y[ea]r 1798'. A 19th-century graveyard, associated with a church (C of I) dedicated to St Catherine, now levelled, lies immediately to the E. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

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